REFORMERS - AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF PIONEER EXPERIMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF CRIMINALS

• NCJ Number: 37427
• Author(s): ERIKSSON
• Date Published: 1976
• Length: 310 pages
• Sale Source: Elsevier North-Holland, Inc
• Publication Type: Historical Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SWEDISH TEXT BY CATHERINE DJURKLOU

Annotation

THIS TEXT TRACES THE HISTORY OF REFORM EXPERIMENTS IN CRIMINAL TREATMENT IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES FROM THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY.

Abstract

THE AUTHOR RECOUNTS IDEAS CONCEIVED, EXPRESSED, AND EXECUTED THROUGHOUT HISTORY WHICH PARALLEL OUR THOUGHTS TODAY, LENDING PERSPECTIVE TO PRESENT-DAY ATTEMPTS AT PRISON REFORM. EXPERIMENTS WITH SEPARATE AND SOLITARY CONFINEMENTS, SELF-GOVERNMENT IN INSTITUTIONS, PROBATION, AND MODERN METHODS OF TREATMENT IN PSYCHIATRIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL INSTITUTIONS ARE AMONG THE TOPICS COVERED IN THE AUTHOR'S DESCRIPTION OF THE ACHIEVEMENTS AND FAILURES OF PIONEER REFORMERS. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)