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Seven Arguments against Rehabilitation: An Assessment of their Validity

Seven Arguments against Rehabilitation: An Assessment of their Validity ANZJ Crim (1982) 15 SEVEN ARGUMENTS AGAINST REHABILITATION: AN ASSESSMENT OF THEIR VALIDITY Don Weatherburn There are those! who contend that rehabilitative philosophy rests upon a number of false assumptions. In so arguing the usual aim is to show the inappropriateness or futility of rehabilitative philosophy in order to justify the adoption of a retributional approach. It is not the purpose of this discussion to address the question of whether we should adopt a rehabilitative or retributional approach to sentencing. That, in the last analysis, is not a question any facts will decide. What is intended here is an examination of several arguments commonly advanced against a philosophy of rehabilitation. First among the arguments we will deal with is the following: (1) Treatment ideology assumes we know something about the individual causes of crime. This is manifestly false and therefore treatment ideology has no rational foundation''. Comment: Setting aside for the moment the putative equation of rehabilitative philosophy with "treatment ideology" the argument fails in its major premise. It is' not in general true that we need to know the causes of a particular event to influence the likelihood of its repetition. Methods of disease control in which the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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ANZJ Crim (1982) 15 SEVEN ARGUMENTS AGAINST REHABILITATION: AN ASSESSMENT OF THEIR VALIDITY Don Weatherburn There are those! who contend that rehabilitative philosophy rests upon a number of false assumptions. In so arguing the usual aim is to show the inappropriateness or futility of rehabilitative philosophy in order to justify the adoption of a retributional approach. It is not the purpose of this discussion to address the question of whether we should adopt a rehabilitative or retributional approach to sentencing. That, in the last analysis, is not a question any facts will decide. What is intended here is an examination of several arguments commonly advanced against a philosophy of rehabilitation. First among the arguments we will deal with is the following: (1) Treatment ideology assumes we know something about the individual causes of crime. This is manifestly false and therefore treatment ideology has no rational foundation''. Comment: Setting aside for the moment the putative equation of rehabilitative philosophy with "treatment ideology" the argument fails in its major premise. It is' not in general true that we need to know the causes of a particular event to influence the likelihood of its repetition. Methods of disease control in which the

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Mar 1, 1982

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