What is criminal rehabilitation?

Journal article

Abstract:: It is often said that the institutions of criminal justice ought or—perhaps more often—ought not to rehabilitate criminal offenders. But the term ‘criminal rehabilitation’ is often used without being explicitly defined, and in ways that are consistent with widely divergent conceptions. In this paper, we present a taxonomy that distinguishes, and explains the relationships between, different conceptions of criminal rehabilitation. Our taxonomy distinguishes conceptions of criminal rehabilitation on the basis of (i) the aims or ends of the putatively rehabilitative measure, and (ii) the means that may be used to achieve the intended end. We also explore some of the implications of each conception, some of the payoffs of a taxonomy of the kind we offer, and some areas for future work.

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Language:: English
Keywords:: reform

criminal rehabilitation

moral improvement

moral education

criminal justice

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Pubs id:: 1109763
Local pid:: pubs:1109763
Deposit date:: 2020-06-06
ARK identifier:: ark:/29072/ora_dbbedd9c849340d183b932dafc5a0990

Copyright holder:: Forsberg and Douglas
Rights statement:: © The Authors 2020. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made.

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