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...system and what it was achieving, Federal Bureau of Prisons Director Norman Carlson decided in 1972 that Butner, then in the planning stage, would be designed for new rehabilitation techniques. After bitter criticism scuttled early ideas of using transactional analysis and behavior modification, Carlson turned to the theories of Norval Morris, 52, a New Zealand-born criminal-law professor (and now dean) at the University of Chicago Law School...
...What is launched as an incentive system turns out to be a barrier to the treatment itself," writes the University of Chicago's Norval...
...tawdry sections of Chicago have remained high over the decades, though inhabited at different times by Swedes, Poles, Germans, Italians, Syrians and blacks. Says Sociologist Lloyd Ohlin: "Slums of the big cities have always been the main source of recruitment to street crime, no matter who lived there." Says Norval Morris: "It is trite but it remains true that the main causes of crime are social and economic. The question arises whether people really care. The solutions are so obvious. It's almost as if America wished for a high crime rate...
...there is some preliminary indication that the treatment may work -to the benefit of both the prisoner and society. If the voluntary program is ended, inmates who really do want to participate would lose out. Many behavior-mod programs "have some fairly good data of success with volunteers," says Norval Morris, director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago. But they have "a very low record of success with nonvolunteers...
...civil rights. The U.S. has no terrorist groups of any size or popular support like those of Quebec, Argentina and Uruguay. The only way to cope with U.S. terrorist kidnapers may be simply to deal with each case individually and patiently. "Talk, talk, talk and never give in," says Norval Morris, director of the University of Chicago's Center for Studies in Criminal Justice. "Every contact with kidnapers increases the likelihood of finding out where they...