Tech Can Keep Ex-Offenders Out of Jail
null By Barry LatzerNov. 19, 2023 4:39 pm ETJournal Editorial Report: The week’s best and worst from Kim Strassel, Kyle Peterson, Mary O'Grady and Dan Henninger. Images: AP/AFP/Getty Images/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite: Mark KellyRehabilitation used to be the mainstay of criminal justice in the U.S. In a famous 1959 essay, law professor Francis A. Allen wrote that “in some quarters it is almost assumed that matters of treatment and reform of the offender are the only questions worthy of serious attention in the whole field of criminal justice and corrections.” Two decades later, that liberal ideal had collapsed thanks to the largest violent crime wave in the 20th century and the discovery that few rehabilitation programs worked. “Nothing works” became the new mantra and incapacitation the new rallying cry of penology.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Continue reading your article witha WSJ subscriptionSubscribe NowAlready a
Nov. 19, 2023 4:39 pm ET
Rehabilitation used to be the mainstay of criminal justice in the U.S. In a famous 1959 essay, law professor Francis A. Allen wrote that “in some quarters it is almost assumed that matters of treatment and reform of the offender are the only questions worthy of serious attention in the whole field of criminal justice and corrections.”
Two decades later, that liberal ideal had collapsed thanks to the largest violent crime wave in the 20th century and the discovery that few rehabilitation programs worked. “Nothing works” became the new mantra and incapacitation the new rallying cry of penology.
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