The Rise and Fall of Boot Camps

Cullen, Francis T.; Blevins, Kristie R.; Trager, Jennifer; Gendreau, Paul

doi:10.1300/j076v40n03_03

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“…Variation in criminal sanction has little effect. In the absence of human service or rehabilitative programs, longer (or shorter) sentences, get-tough sentencing, and scaring offenders straight CRIMINAL JUSTICE RESPONSES TO PARTNER VIOLENCE have no effect on criminal recidivism (Andrews & Bonta, 1994;Cullen, Blevins, Trager, & Gendreau, 2005;Ferguson, 2002). To the extent that partner violence is criminal conduct, get-tough sentencing of perpetrators is unlikely to affect the risk faced by subsequent victims, beyond incapacitation.…”

Section: Lessons From Interventions For Criminal Conductmentioning

confidence: 99%

Criminal justice responses to partner violence: History, evaluation, and lessons learned.

Hilton¹,

Harris²

2009

Preventing Partner Violence: Research and Evidence-Based Intervention Strategies.

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In this chapter, we briefly review the history of partner violence in legislation, policing, prosecution, and more recent alternatives to the traditional court process. We then describe the little that is known about the effectiveness of criminal justice responses to partner violence over the past half century. We draw on lessons learned from interventions for other forms of criminal conduct. We take the position that this field embodies some challenges for psychologists and researchers. First, most criminal justice responses to any problem are founded on an essentially lay understanding of human behavior. The implicit assumption is that people (especially men) will use violence if they think they can get away with it, and that punishment will act as both a general and a specific deterrent. Criminal justice responses, once applied, albeit with good intentions and optimism, are rarely subject to rigorous evaluation. However, scientific study reveals that, partly because they are based on too simple an understanding of violent behavior, many criminal justice interventions are ineffective or even counterproductive 219

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Section: Lessons From Interventions For Criminal Conductmentioning

confidence: 99%

Criminal justice responses to partner violence: History, evaluation, and lessons learned.

Hilton¹,

Harris²

2009

Preventing Partner Violence: Research and Evidence-Based Intervention Strategies.

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“…Program participants typically wear short-cropped haircuts and distinctive clothing, sometimes resembling military fatigues, visually setting participants apart from other incarcerated people ( Wilson et al, 2005 ). Boot camp staff typically reinforce orders through yelling and physical activity ( Cullen et al, 2005 ; Franke et al, 2010 ), and strongly emphasize unit cleanliness, using it as evidence of increased discipline among participants.…”

Section: Correctional Boot Campsmentioning

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A Good Place to Do Time? Detailing the Construction of Symbolic Social Boundaries in Correctional Boot Camps

Schultz,

Bucerius,

Haggerty

2024

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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Drawing on qualitative interviews with 51 incarcerated adult men and nine correctional officers in a Western Canadian prison system, we ask why some incarcerated people find it appealing to be placed on correctional boot camp units and what such appeals tell us about broader conditions of incarceration. Participants on three boot camp units drew on narratives relating to (a) extrinsic benefits, (b) discipline and structure, (c) teamwork and positive relationships, and (d) an opportunity for self-improvement to construct symbolic boundaries between “normal” units and boot camps, as well as their former self and their transformed current self. By drawing symbolic boundaries between the past and present and between other units and their boot camp unit, our participants create narratives that allow them to partially mitigate some pains of imprisonment.

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“…seeking to correct or even punish youth crime 'as the outcome of deficiencies in the individual'). In regards to physical activity, a frequently discussed example of correctionalism is the boot camp approach-where youth are subjected to strenuous physical demands and even 'planned and repeated humiliation' in a military structure (Cullen, Blevins, Trager, and Gendreau 2005). Although boot camps aimed to instil self-discipline in youth, Kilgore and Meade (2004) show how students hardly learned responsibility because it was taught (imposed upon them) in a way that did not permit students to practice it themselves.…”

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‘Rings on the water’: examining the pedagogical approach at a football program for detained youth in Sweden

2019

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Studies indicate that sport within youth institutional settings can be beneficial (e.g. learning social skills) or problematic (e.g. social exclusion) depending on how they are structured, delivered and, ultimately, experienced by students. In this article, we examine the experiences of students and staff in an educational sport program at a Swedish all-male youth detention home (ages 16-20) in order to increase understanding of the pedagogical approach of a sports-based program for detained youth. Drawing on interviews with both students and staff, we identify and elaborate four aspects of the program-building a pedagogical platform, 'seeing' and meeting students, creating a supportive environment, and thinking beyond the institution-that were collectively represented to initiate and guide a process of growth and change for students. We discuss how these aspects of the program's pedagogical approach, in contrast to deficiency-based approaches, can provide a useful framework for delivering sport in ways that can benefit detained youth and other young people in socially vulnerable situations.

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The Rise and Fall of Boot Camps

Cited by 40 publications

References 23 publications

Criminal justice responses to partner violence: History, evaluation, and lessons learned.

Criminal justice responses to partner violence: History, evaluation, and lessons learned.

A Good Place to Do Time? Detailing the Construction of Symbolic Social Boundaries in Correctional Boot Camps

‘Rings on the water’: examining the pedagogical approach at a football program for detained youth in Sweden

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