1959

In this program, criminologist Joseph D. Lohman explains that a major portion of the crime problem is a result of what society does about initial and relatively less serious crime. An interviewed inmate tells that he was less damaged by his prior criminal experience than by his prison experiences. Public sentiment has not kept pace with the progress of penological attitudes, say Lohman and Bates. This is a cause of prison experiences making an inmate more dangerous to the public. They emphasize that a prison must make offenders self-reliant, rather than dependent, and indicate methods by which this can be accomplished.

WTTW, Chicago; Joseph D. Lohman; Sanford Bates; Alan Sweetow; Chalmers Marquis; Hans W. Mattick; John H. Gagnon

National Educational Television; Indiana University Audio-Visual Center

Educational

Imprisonment ; Prisoners and prisons ; Prisoners--Attitudes ; Prisoners--United States--Social conditions.

National Educational Television

IUL Moving Image Archive

English

Other: GR00450982; MDPI Barcode: 40000003354208