NCJ Number
93919
Journal
Crime and Delinquency Volume: 30 Issue: 2 Dated: (April 1984) Pages: 269-292
Date Published
1984
Length
24 pages
Annotation
Criticisms of the efficacy of psychotherpy and the failure of criminal rehabilitation call for continued attempts to develop successful intervention modalities.
Abstract
During the past decade, the clinical sociology of the 1930's has been revived and may be effectively applied to correctional counseling. Since theorizing concerning criminal etiology is primarily sociological in nature, treatment paradigms should be grounded in sociological theory. Clinical sociologists may utilize cultural 'vital features' such as ethnicity, stratification, age, family and sex roles, change, and everyday metaphysics in the correctional counseling relationship. (Author abstract)