Title

Privatizing discretion: ''Rehabilitating'' treatment in community corrections

Authors

Authors

K. Lucken

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Crime Delinq.

Keywords

PRISONS; Criminology & Penology

Abstract

In the part decade, private sector involvement in punishment has been vigorously renewed and expanded. In documenting the growth of this trend, the literature has focused on normative issues related to privately operated prisons. Noticeably missing from the privatization debate is discussion of community corrections. This article seeks to fill this void by examining a rapidly growing trend in community corrections, namely the use of private treatment agencies to provide mandated counseling services to probationers. These services can include sex offense, substance abuse, domestic violence, life skills, impulse control, and anger management counseling. The ethical problems posed by the convergence of rehabilitation, discretion, and profit are raised through concrete examples of privatization's effects on both offenders and the control system. Policy recommendations also are provided to establish more principled treatment sanctioning in the community.

Journal Title

Crime & Delinquency

Volume

43

Issue/Number

3

Publication Date

1-1-1997

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Language

English

First Page

243

Last Page

259

WOS Identifier

WOS:A1997XD38900001

ISSN

0011-1287

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