Francis T. Cullen

TL;DR: The authors found that rehabilitation receives considerable support, though this is most pronounced for certain offenders and for certain treatment modalities, which reinforces the finding of a growing body of revisionist research that the public retains faith in rehabilitation as a legitimate goal of the correctional process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempted to assess whether treatment has in fact been sufficiently tarnished that it no longer constitutes a viable rationale for criminal sanctioning, based on a survey of an Illinois community.

TL;DR: Cullen et al. as mentioned in this paper pointed out that criminal anthropologists like Lombroso and Hooton focused their attention on discerning whether criminals had larger foreheads or more tattoos than non-criminals, and they ignored the larger changes in society that were occuring around them.

TL;DR: This article investigated the role that religious beliefs play in shaping sentiments toward crime control policies, with a particular focus on the relationship between belonging to a Christian fundamentalist denomination and support for the death penalty.

TL;DR: This paper explored whether African Americans and Whites differ in their perceptions of racial injustice in the criminal justice system and found that perceived racism was strongest among the least affluent African Americans, and that the racial divide in perceived criminal injustice both reflects and contributes to a larger racial chasm in how Black and White citizens understand and experience their lives in American society.