Significance of Negative Individual Prevention: Address to the American Society of Criminology at the Reception of the Sellin-Glueck Award (From Kriminalistisk Institut Arbog 1995, P 127-132, 1995, Lene Ravn, ed.)

• NCJ Number: 161953
• Author(s): U V Bondeson
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 6 pages
• Sale Source: Rosenborggade 17
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: Denmark
• Note: Institute of Criminology Series

Annotation

This address to the American Society of Criminology, on the occasion of the author's receiving the Sellin-Glueck award, noted that even in a progressive criminal justice system prisonization occurs in all types of correctional facilities for both men and women.

Abstract

In his empirical studies of correctional facilities, the author found that recidivism was high over a 10-year followup and that prisonization had long-lasting effects based on a survival analysis. Although the intent of legislation was to encourage correctional facilities to achieve individual prevention, the result was the opposite and this result was characterized as negative individual prevention. The theory of negative individual prevention was confirmed in the context of alternatives to imprisonment, comparing conditional sentences and probation with and without institutional treatment. Holding constant recidivism risk with a prediction instrument, studies demonstrated that worse results were obtained with more so-called treatment. The use of imprisonment in Scandinavian countries is discussed. 22 references