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A correctional program for the not too distant future

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This paper provides the outline of a program of correctional advocacy constructed on the foundation of an existing system of parole supervision. It would be the work of this program to maintain and strengthen, or to establish, prosocial reference groups in the community capable of mitigating the effect of the asocial and antisocial reference groups at work in the institution. These efforts would be initiated immediately on the correctional client's admission into a correctional setting and would continue for a time beyond release, thereby providing a continuity of correctional services all too rarely encountered in current practice.

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  1. Office of Research and Development, Narcotics Treatment Administration, District of Columbia, 613 G Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

    Barry S. Brown Ph.D. (Chief, Professorial Lecturer)

  2. Center for the Administration of Justice at American University, USA

    Barry S. Brown Ph.D. (Chief, Professorial Lecturer)

  3. Social Services Division, Superior Court of District of Columbia, 613 G Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

    Alan M. Schuman M.S.W. (Director)

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Brown, B.S., Schuman, A.M. A correctional program for the not too distant future. Community Ment Health J 10, 33–40 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01434568

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