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criminology
penology
prisons and correctional facilities
key people in prisons and correctional facilities
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social problems encyc
crime and deviance
community corrections
theory and treatment in the community
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Robert Martinson
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- Robert Martinson was a correctional researcher who became famous following the publication of a provocative 1974 article on correctional treatment entitled “What Works? Questions and Answers About Prison Reform,” in which he concluded that nothing works to reform and rehabilitate criminals. Although the phrase “Nothing works” became synonymous specifically with Martinson, he was actually a member of a research team that included Douglas Lipton and Judith Wilks, themselves well-regarded scholars in the field of corrections. [Source: Encyclopedia of Prisons & Correctional Facilities; Martinson, Robert]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Robert_Martinson
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