The prison now came to symbolise and monopolise all forms of punishment. ... It wasn't until the 1960's however that the transformations that took place at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries seriously became under attack (Cohen 1985, p.30). ... Advocates of decarceration denounce that most offenders can be safely controlled in the community and that this helps them acquire self-discipline and self-reliance that they lose by being in prison (Vass 1979, p.39). ... Community is desirable so should be used as a sanction for most offences (Vass 19...

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In the 1950's and 1960's, the public did not continue to support these decisions as effective treatments for the offenders. In the 1960's, the juvenile court procedures became the same as the adult criminal court, except that the punishment determination was never by a jury. ... " JDAI is part of the foundation's national vision that all young persons who come into the juvenile justice system be given the support necessary to give them the chance to develop into healthy productive adults" (Teitelman & Linhares 2013). ... He did not do well in detention or in hi...

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These people with lower levels of self-control also engage in non-criminal acts as well. ... Since the second half of the 1980's, there has been a large growth in prison and jail populations, continuing a trend that started in the 1970's. ... By the end of the 1980's, about one-third of those sent to state prisons had been convicted of a drug offense; the highest in the country's history (Reuter 1992, pp. 323-395). ... With that many people in prisons that are using drugs and the connection between drug use and crime, then if there was any success at all it seems like it wo...

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