The situation keeps bouncing back and forth between should the criminal system be punitive or should it be rehabilitative? The U.S. is no where near getting past that. No Way! It varies from state to state. My God! What a quagmire! The therapy I experienced at Atascadero State hospital, in California, seemed to be oriented toward being a whole person and not involved with abnormal psychology. I started to do my own psychoanalysis there and I was told by staff that I was spinning my wheels.
So there are two unresolved questions:
1. Should the system be punitive or rehabilitative?
2. Should abnormal psychology be brought into consideration?
We will continue to be between a rock and a hard place until the U.S settles on a direction. So will the victims.
Russell
2007-01-05 05:45:30 · 4 answers · asked by Russell W 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
I think it should be on individual case by case basis. No one thing can work for everyone.
2007-01-05 05:53:55 · answer #1 · answered by F.A.Q. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should be neither. It should be preventive. If a human promises to be problematic and a danger to others only. The system is so far removed from true social reality that the damage is permanent and unsolvable with the concepts applied today, And so what if we apply abnormal psychology for definitions of behavior. It does not cure anyone of anything. It just gives more support for the system. And to be punitive with a human disengages the subject from the object in that the reason for removing a human from society is lost and another abstract and destructive alignment replaces it. The need to protect victims has developed into a socially sanctioned form of transference that is not rehabilitative it is a horrible disengagement.
2007-01-05 09:13:17 · answer #2 · answered by JORGE N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Prisons should be like Alcatraz, every inmate sleeps in a very small cell, no talking, no TV, newspapers, magazines. No being in the same room with visitors, no weight lifting. Prisoners earn personal time through good behavior, which they can spend on constructive things like going to school, or job training. Prisons should be a place where a harsh regime of discipline is enforced and a place that once an inmate gets out it is the last place they ever want to go back.
2007-01-05 05:58:18 · answer #3 · answered by crazyhorse19682003 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. yes
2. yes, but only to a point.
people still have to be held responsible for their actions and society has to be protected...
who are the "victims" you are talking about?
2007-01-05 06:04:58 · answer #4 · answered by John C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋