The Illusion of Prison Reform: Corrections in CanadaThis monograph offers a brief overview of ideologies of imprisonment which have been developed in Western corrections, and analyses recent attempts to implement reforms in Canadian prisons. The history of modern corrections has been replete with criticisms and periodic attempts at reform. The authors contend that some of the post-1945 innovations, such as the therapeutic community and the development of community corrections, which arose in critical response to the punitive prison, have been modified and institutionalized in an endemically conservative system. Ideologically, this has meant a return to the «first principles» of confinement and punishment. In this process, reforms become more explicitly instruments for the control of prisoners and the management of prisons. |
Contents
Retribution and Reformation | 9 |
Liberal and Conservative Criminology | 23 |
Functionalism and the Prison | 35 |
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acceptance anti-administration Archambault Commission Archambault Report argued aspects attempt basic basis behaviour Canada Canadian Canadian Journal Centre classification community corrections concept confinement consensus conservative context CRCs crime criminal justice critical criminology critical theory critique crucial defined as criminal deviant drug emphasis endemic existence function goals ideology implementation implied imprisonment incarceration increase individual reformation Inmate Committee institutions Journal of Criminology Kingston Penitentiary libertarian Living Unit major maximum means medical model medium security ment Murton norms offender parole penal Penitentiary penology perspective philosophy of rehabilitation position positivism potential prison administration prison population prison reform prison regime prison system problem punishment punitive question Quinney radical rebellion recidivism reform philosophy rehabilitative model rehabilitative philosophy rejected Report response retribution role sentence Service social control social structure social system society Springhill Sykes Task Force theoretical Therapeutic Community tion tive TLAS treatment programmes values