Voluntary Imprisonment: Its Usefulness in the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders

NORMAN I. BARRAuthors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 124, Number 2

https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.2.170

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The author suggests that voluntary admission of prison inmates would offer advantages similar to those relating to voluntary admission of mental patients. Such a plan, he feels, would delegate to the offender an active role in his own rehabilitation, reduce his alienation from society, and would result in public acknowledgment of the responsibility of penal institutions to encourage a rehabilitative approach and develop a therapeutic milieu.

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American Journal of Psychiatry

Volume 124 • Number 2 • August 1967

Pages: 170 - 179

PubMed: 4951571

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Published in print: August 1967

Published online: 1 April 2006

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NORMAN I. BARR

University of Southern California Institute of Psychiatry and Law, 1934 Hospital Place, Los Angeles, Calif. 90033

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Voluntary Imprisonment: Its Usefulness in the Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders

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