Program Evaluation in Crime and Delinquency

Societies whose posture toward criminal or deviant behavior is essentially retributive need not concern themselves with the assessment of the methods they apply to those accused of such behaviors. Such societies do not expect the convicted offender to “get better,” though they may hope or presume that one effect of the retribution (e.g., incarceration, loss of the offending bodily part) might be to limit the future occurrence of the behavior in question. The retribution serves as its own end.

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