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Book Review: Behaviour Modification With Offenders: A Criminological Symposium

Book Review: Behaviour Modification With Offenders: A Criminological Symposium 126 BOOK REVIEWS ANZJ Crirn (1981) 14 Quite apart from its value as a document which lays the basis for a significant programme of reform, the report also has descriptive value. There are useful summaries of the state of prisoner education in South Australia, the other Australian States, England and Wales, and the United States. Consideration is given to some of the fundamental philosophical issues in prisoner education. Recognition is granted to the fact that education for prisoners is not inevitably and unproblematically desirable: "Giving somebody the opportunity to 'pass' something must mean you give them the chance to 'fair" (p 8). It is only a short report of 75 pages which practitioners of prison education will find well worth reading. JOHN BRAITHWAITE Canberra Behaviour Modification With Offenders: A Criminological Symposium, Gordon B Trasler and David P Farrington (eds). University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology. Occasional Papers No 5 (1979) 136 pp $3. The application of behavioural psychology to the treatment of offenders and the design of institutional regimes is a controversial subject in many countries. Particularly in the United States, so-called behaviour modification programmes have been the target of considerable public criticism and official investigation. Much of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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SAGE
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© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1981
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0004-8658
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1837-9273
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10.1177/000486588101400213
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126 BOOK REVIEWS ANZJ Crirn (1981) 14 Quite apart from its value as a document which lays the basis for a significant programme of reform, the report also has descriptive value. There are useful summaries of the state of prisoner education in South Australia, the other Australian States, England and Wales, and the United States. Consideration is given to some of the fundamental philosophical issues in prisoner education. Recognition is granted to the fact that education for prisoners is not inevitably and unproblematically desirable: "Giving somebody the opportunity to 'pass' something must mean you give them the chance to 'fair" (p 8). It is only a short report of 75 pages which practitioners of prison education will find well worth reading. JOHN BRAITHWAITE Canberra Behaviour Modification With Offenders: A Criminological Symposium, Gordon B Trasler and David P Farrington (eds). University of Cambridge Institute of Criminology. Occasional Papers No 5 (1979) 136 pp $3. The application of behavioural psychology to the treatment of offenders and the design of institutional regimes is a controversial subject in many countries. Particularly in the United States, so-called behaviour modification programmes have been the target of considerable public criticism and official investigation. Much of the

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1981

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