Discuss the implications of the failure of the United States to ultimately establish and maintain a correctional ideology that is successful
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary but students should be able to recognize the dangers in the failure to successfully find and apply a correctional ideology (a current one or one that has not been conceived yet) that works for our nation. Potential dangers could include a total breakdown of our correctional system, whereupon thousands of dangerous offenders are no longer kept safely away from society. Potential dangers could also include ineffective rehabilitation, which would return thousands of offenders to society untreated and therefore potentially quick to offend again. The concept of deterrence could dissipate; individuals who might otherwise not have committed crimes may decide to take advantage of the lack of order and do so.
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