Social Psychological Foundations for Using Criminals in the Rehabilitation of Criminals

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Sutherland's principle of differential association and more gen eral symbolic interactionist theory provide the foundations for development of a set of theory for the rehabilitation of criminals and delinquents. If social conduct is a function of attitudes em bodied in words learned from membership groups and reference groups, attempts to change that conduct should concentrate on processes for avoiding some verbalizations and acquiring others. In these processes, criminals and delinquents themselves can be used effectively to introduce guilt and shame into the psychologi cal makeup of those who would commit crime, as well as to avoid production of further criminality, or a different form of crimi nality, among the population whose change is sought.

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