Treatment Destruction Techniques

Abstract

The conventional wisdom in criminology is that treatment programs have been found to be ineffective. This paper outlines several methods that may be used to defend this wisdom: (1) contaminate the treatment, (2) stress the criterion problem, (3) appeal to common sense, (4) demonstrate that re habilitation is premised on faulty theory, and (5) seek universals. In addition, methods for uncovering the tyranny inherent in all treatment programs are discussed briefly.