The question (15 marks)
Write a note on the correctional treatment of offenders, and appraise the reformative techniques in use. (15 marks)
MU Module IV, correction of offenders; chapter on prisons, correction, probation and parole, and the chapter on the theories and kinds of punishment.
Plan your answer on paper before you look at the authorities — issue first, then the rule, then apply it to these facts.
It tests Unit 4 · Correction of Offenders, Probation, Parole and Victimology of Criminology and Penology.
Authorities you will need
- The reformatory philosophy recorded in the litigation concerning the juvenile ward of a Central Jail
- The cognitive Risk-Needs-Responsibility model of treatment
- Martinson, and the English survey by Brody, on the collapse and qualification of the rehabilitative ideal
- The features of the open air prison camp system
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