Punishment, Corrections, and the Law

I. Prison as Punishment or Correction II.

The Specific Aims of Our Correctional Scheme … A. The Three Allegedly Non-Utilitarian Ingredients of the Correctional System … (1) Vindication … (2) Retribution … (3) Penitence … B. The Three Utilitarian Ingredients of the Correctional System … (1) Neutralization … (2) Deterrence … (a) General Deterrence … (b) Special Deterrence … (c) Resocialization III. Punishment or Correction as Law … A. Legislative Participation in the Shaping of Correctional Policy … B. Subjection of Correctional theory and Practice to the Rule of Law