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42 Crim. Just. & Behavior 5 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/crmjusbhv42 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION TO THE SPECIAL ISSUE BRUCE A. ARRIGO University ofNorth Carolina at Charlotte TONY WARD Victoria University of Wellington Keywords: introduction; rehabilitation; correctional psychology; values and ethics; desistance The literature on offender treatment and desistance from crime is in its formative period of development. To date, theoretical, empirical, clinical, and policy analyses have raised important questions about risk assessment, good lives programming, and socio-cul- tural critique. One issue at the center of this literature that has yet to be systematically con- sidered is the role of values and ethics in the desistance process. This issue acknowledges that a moral sensibility or code is very much a part of official responses to criminal conduct, approved modes of rehabilitative intervention, and certified forms of reconciliation. What is not so clear is whether this moral entrepreneurship effectively promotes or impedes the journey of offender treatment and desistance from crime. This special issue of Criminal Justice and Behavior aims to examine these dynamics. In the Response to Crime section of this special issue, authors consider where and how institutional decision making (i.e., the system's approach to desistance) advances the aims of social justice, psychological well-being, autonomy, and/or other dignity-enhancing impera- tives. Bruce Arrigo reviews this concern philosophically by proposing how the normative and cultural diagnostics of psychological jurisprudence are useful for developing a trans- desistance (i.e., human social capital) theory of offender treatment, recovery, and transfor- mation. Astrid Birgden addresses this matter conceptually by integrating therapeutic jurisprudence principles with the doctrine of human rights as fitted to the reparative logic of desistance. Heather Bersot and Bruce Arrigo investigate this issue jurisprudentially by explaining how the U.S. Supreme Court case law on sex offenders and sexually violent predators represents decision making that furthers the (underdeveloped) ethical aims of legal moralism. In the Modes of Rehabilitation section of this special issue, authors consider where and how offender treatments and therapeutic correctives manage human risk or grow AUTHOR'S NOTE: Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Bruce A. Arrigo, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223; e-mail: barrigo@uncc.edu. CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, 2015, Vol. 42, No. 1, January 2015, 5-6. DOI: 10.1177/0093854814550022 © 2014 International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology

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