Can Prisons Work? - 9780802083500

Can Prisons Work?The Prisoner As Object and Subject in Modern Corrections\nAuthor(s): Stephen Ralph Duguid\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802083500, 978-0802083500\nSynopsis\nCan individuals be reformed or rehabilitated in the prison? A persistent body of work indicates that rehabilitation and/or reformation through incarceration is illusory. Exceptions, according to this view, are the result of accident, not design. For many practitioners in corrections systems, the incarceration of criminals is a \""fact\"" and the task of prisons is to isolate, deter, and punish and only then, perhaps reform the criminal. In \""Can Prison Work?\"" Stephen Duguid contends that both critics and defenders of incarceration have erred in making the prisoner the object rather than the subject of their discourse; the critics see prisoners as victims of a monstrous institution and the defenders view them as incorrigibles ps