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In recent years there has been growing scepticism over the ability of incarceration to meet the traditional goals of rehabilitation, deterrence and incapacitation. The prison system has also been criticized for inhumane treatment, and the substantial cost of imprisonment has been emphasized. Calls for restraint have been based also on the over-use of prisons because many inmates are found to have committed offences that are regarded as non-serious.
The research on which this paper is based was conducted at the Centre of Criminology, University of Toronto. This is a revised version of a paper presented to the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, in November 1982.
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© 1992 Tony Dittenhoffer and Richard V. Ericson
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Dittenhoffer, T., Ericson, R.V. (1992). The Victim/Offender Reconciliation Programme: A Message to the Correctional Reformers. In: Fattah, E.A. (eds) Towards a Critical Victimology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22089-2_11
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