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Jan 16, 2014 · Motivated by recent efforts by the criminal justice system to treat and rehabilitate nonviolent offenders rather than focusing solely on their punishment, we introduce an evolutionary game theoretic model to study the effects of “carrot and stick” intervention programs on criminal recidivism. We use stochastic simulations to study the evolution of a population where individuals may commit ...
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 109.4: 769–817. This article suggests reasons why recidivism alone is a poor metric for evaluating the success of rehabilitative interventions in the criminal justice system. This article advocates that instead of measuring success by simple rates of recidivism, there should be more nuanced metrics.
Below is the seventh chapter from “A Better Path Forward for Criminal Justice,” a report by the Brookings-AEI Working Group on Criminal Justice Reform. You can access other chapters from the ...
Dec 18, 2012 · Punishment Fails. Rehabilitation Works. James Gilligan, a clinical professor of psychiatry and an adjunct professor of law at New York University, is the author of, among other books, "Preventing ...
Dec 6, 2007 · Reviews. Mark W. Lipsey 1 and Francis T. Cullen 2. 1 Institute for Public Policy Studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, T ennessee 37212; email: mark.lipsey@vanderbilt.edu. 2 Division of ...
Jul 1, 2003 · The punitive turn. Until the mid-1970s, rehabilitation was a key part of U.S. prison policy. Prisoners were encouraged to develop occupational skills and to resolve psychological problems--such as substance abuse or aggression--that might interfere with their reintegration into society.
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 ...
