TY - JOUR
AU1 - DINITZ, SIMON
AB -  Ohio State University he liberal-reformist impulse in criminology and corrections institutionalized a century ago in the 1870 Declaration of Principles in Cincinnati by what is now the American Correctional Association, and nourished by the New Penology which surfaced under that glorious title around 1935, is now utterly spent. Intellectually, the reformist impulse was made respectable by the victory of positivism over classicism, by empiricism over speculative philosophy, by the clinical over the legal perspective, by causal ambiguity over legal certainty, and by elevating the actor over his act. On the policy level, this liberal-reformist impulse focused, to the exclusion of nearly all else, on humanizing the prisons and jails and on rehabilitating the inmates. To these lofty ends, the new penologists, a mixed bag of crusty prison wardens and other-worldly academic types, supported by a cast of moral entrepreneurs, humanists, clergy, concerned laity, and cause-oriented persons of all descriptions, changed the system in big and little ways-from the creation of the juvenile court system and the implementation of probation and parole, to the elimination of mail censorship and the introduction of small amenities into the drab and unstimulating lives of the incarcerated. A full recital of these changes 
TI - NOTHING FAILS LIKE A LITTLE SUCCESS
JF - Criminology
DO - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1978.tb00089.x
DA - 1978-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/nothing-fails-like-a-little-success-Tl7M6YY0Ex
SP - 225
VL - 16
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -