Corrections and the Violent Offender
- 1 January 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
- Vol. 381 (1) , 119-124
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000271626938100114
Abstract
Improper attention is given to the diagnosis and classification of offenders sent to prison. An effort should be made to distinguish violent from nonviolent persons sen tenced to prison in order better to provide a more appropriate treatment setting for each. Past and current management of correctional institutions is based primarily on the image, behavior, and potential risk of the violent offender, much to the detriment of the nonviolent inmates who numerically pre dominate in prison.Keywords
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