Punishment, Corrections, and the Law

Authors

Gerhard O. W. Mueller, New York University School of Law

Abstract

I. Prison as Punishment or Correction

II. The Specific Aims of Our Correctional Scheme … A. The Three Allegedly Non-Utilitarian Ingredients of the Correctional System … (1) Vindication … (2) Retribution … (3) Penitence … B. The Three Utilitarian Ingredients of the Correctional System … (1) Neutralization … (2) Deterrence … (a) General Deterrence … (b) Special Deterrence … (c) Resocialization

III. Punishment or Correction as Law … A. Legislative Participation in the Shaping of Correctional Policy … B. Subjection of Correctional theory and Practice to the Rule of Law

Recommended Citation

Gerhard O. W. Mueller, Punishment, Corrections, and the Law, 45 Neb. L. Rev. 58 (1966)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol45/iss1/7