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If You Have Issues Viewing Or Accessing This File Contact Us at NCJRS.Gov If you have issues viewing or accessing this file contact us at NCJRS.gov. ,.. fhe \l:nh IIf t'urp"rate Immunity to n{'il'rn'm'e: Hr:h'ola)~y and thl' {'rputinn of th .. Invindhle Criminal Frands 1: Cullen Paula J. Dilbeck Ann Goetting Timothy J. F'lanagan RODl.ld 1'\.1. Holmes .lame,.. E. [)(·Burg{·r ,,\11'1,ia n 11,1C( 'ollum Jerom(' Jlabli Karen Nt'sbitt St{llen Glick J:1c{ .... n 'filbrook Ihu'bm'a Coldndl Pet.'!' Hornt' Palll {;eKIcirt'Wil 'lmu/t' 'felliN' .IN. H'ormith . , I .. ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS L. RALPH MECHAM Director DONALD L. CHAMLEE Chief of Probation EDITORIAL STAFF LORENE LAKE Probation Programs Specialist Editor KAREN S. HENKEL ETTA J. JOHNSON Associate Editor Editorial Secretary ADVISORY COMMITTEE WILLIAM E. AMOS, ED. D., Professor and Coor­ BEN S. 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Permission to quote is granted on condition that appropriate credit is given to the author and the Quarterly. Information regarding the reprinting of articles may be obtained by writing to the Editors. FEDERAL PROBATION QUARTERLY. Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Washington! D.C. 20544 SECOND-CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT WASHINGTON, D.C. Publication Number: USPS 356-210 Federal Probation A JOURNAL OF CORRECTIONAL PHILOSOPHY AND PRAC'rrCE Published by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts VOLUME XLIX SEPTEMBER 1985 NUMaER3 NC"J~· This Issue In Brief i1K~ ]f~ \\aas The Myth of Corporate Immunity to Deterrence: DeBurger. Th~ir article .describe,~~steD;latic Ideology and the Creation of the Invincible typology of senall]l.artell~:@II~1iFe'S'lSBme of the Criminal.-Commentators frequently assert that general characteristIcs of the offender. ' the criminal law is ineffective in deterring corporate Computers Can Help.-Until recently the crime because either (a) the public will not support computer-assisted instructional options available to sanctions agai.nst businesses or (b) companies are correctional educators were not very practical, too powerful to be swayed by existing legal reports Federal prisons education specialist Sylvia penalties. Authors Francis T. Cullen and Paula J. G. McCollum. The situation has changed sharply, Dubeck suggest, on the contrary, that studies reveal however, and correctional educators can now choose the public favors the use of criminal sanctions against offending corporations and such sanctions. Ale will Ultimately diminish future illegality. ~)-l~ CONTENTS Racism, Sexism, and Ageism in the Prison Com- 'Jt~ 0 munity.-A survey of literature suggests that The Myth of COrPprate Immunity to Deterrence: ) (;) C-" £'1 blacks, women, and the elderly experience differen- Ideology and t~ Creation of the Invincib~ Criminal ......... , ............... Francis T. Cullen tial treatment in prison and that such treatment is I r; Paula J. Dubeck. 3 somewhat in concert with that afforded them in the (; ~acism, ~:asm. and Ageism in the Prisoe 1O"t1s:t/ outside community according to Professor Ann !. Commumty .,' .... , .................. KnnGoet.tmg 10 . ' . v rSentence Plannmg for Long·Term / 0 Q.S"q ;:< Goettmg of Western Kentucky UniverSIty. She con- iL Inmates ...................... TimothyJ~Flanagan 23 eludes that such discrimination is likely to persist in j[Profiles in Terror: The Serial . the institutional setting until such time it is no L Murderer ......... l ,,'7l Sf.5 ... Ronald M. Holmes 29 . .r: James E, DeB urger longer tolerated m SOCIety at large. .)~Computers Can Help . fe.. tiS:?'+' .. Sylvia G. McCollum 35 Sentence Planning for Iong-Term Inmates.-Re- i)LCI ~ort Worth Substance Abuse Evaluation: . A Pilot Study ...... :. ~...:...,..,. ~ r~ ..... Jerome Ma?li cent sentencing law changes throughout the United , !.J v.> .r'" Karen NesbItt States are likely to produce an increase in size and Steven Glick proportion of long-term prisoners in state and J' JacUyn Tilbrook ~ ~ '£:4'/ Barbara Coldwell 40 Federal correctional facilities. Professor Timothy J. Female Correction Officers ./~l.q .. ~ J-? ..••. Peter Horne 46 Flanagan of the State University of New York at rotective Custody: The Emerging Crisis Albany addresses a number of issues involved in " Within Our Prisons? ... I- cn~~ ?: 1- ... Paul Gendreau Marie-Claude Tellier planning constructive sentences for these prisoners J.S. Wormith 55 and discusses administrative structures for the im- Changing the Criminal .... , .............. Gad Czudner 64 lementation of long-term sentence plapning. jf:he Probationers Speak: Analysis of . P Probati~ners' Experience~_~ . Profiles in Terror: The Serial Murderer.~ne and AttItudes ..... , ./t. ..... '} ..f: .G. FrederIck Allen 67 alarming aspect of contemporary serial murder is the Departments: extent to which its perpetrators believe that violence News of the Future .............................. 76 against human beings is a normal and acceptable Looking at the Law ............................. , . 79 means of implementing their goals or motives, assert Reviews of Professional Periodicals ................ 82 Your Bookshelf on Review , ...................... , . 86 University of Louisville professors Holmes and It Has Come to Our Attention, ................... , . 90 1 2 FEDERAL PROBATION from a wide variety of user-friendly equipment and theoretical perspectives of rehabilitation, deter­ software which includes vocational, high-school rence, desert, and the justice model as points of equivalency, career assessment, job search, and life­ reference, this study evaluated probationers'. ex­ skill courses. Those interested in using computers in periences and obtained their ideas as to what the correctional education may benefit from the Federal mission of probation should be. Author G. Frederick prisons experience. Allen's findings suggest that probationers are able FCI Fort Worth Substance Abuse Evaluation: A to conceptualize criminal sanctions as rehabililta­ Pilot Study.-Dr. Jerome Mabli, research ad­ tion, deterrence, desert, and within a justice model ministrator for the South Central Region of the perspective, simultaneously; and that they have Federal Bureau of Prisons, and members of his staff, useful suggestions for improving the system. discuss the preliminary results of a pilot Substance ERRATA: The concluding lines of the article "The Abuse Program Evaluation. The unit evaluated Effect of Casino Gambling on Crime" by Jay S. after 8 months of testing was the FCr Fort Worth Albanese, which appeared in the June 1985 issue, STAR (Steps Toward Addiction Recovery) Unit were eliminated during the printing process. The which houses 200 inmates. The authors present a last two paragraphs of that article should have read research paradigm which concentrates on cognitive­ as follows: attitudinal variables and outline recommendations As a result, states having support for the legaliza­
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