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Should we consider military service as an alternative to incarceration?

By Douglas A. Berman

The Fall 2008 issue of the Justice Policy Journal includes this interesting article titled simply "Alternatives to Incarceration."  However, as this abstract reveals, the piece is focused on one particularly interesting alternative: While previous research has sought to evaluate prisoners? perceptions of various alternatives to imprisonment, most have centered on the prisoners perspective as to the perceived severity of the alternative punishment.  This research is quite different, as the proposed alternative does not seek to punish but rather to rehabilitate.  The proposed alternative argues that military enlistment be utilized as an alternative to incarceration we intend to determine if prisoners would welcome such an alternative.  Researchers have identified a correlation between military service and desistance from crime among youths, many of whom have had delinquent pasts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 30, 2009 (boomark / email).