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- Title
A POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT PROGRAM IN A 19TH CENTURY PENAL COLONY.
- Authors
Lamal, Peter A.; Lamal, Pauline Dove
- Abstract
The article offers historical perspectives on the positive reinforcement program implemented in the 19th century. Since England did not have a penitentiary system until the passage of the Prison Acts of 1835 and 1839, its convicts were sent to Australia. It was Captain Alexander Maconochie who can be credited for the planning and implementation of the positive reinforcement program in Australia. Maconochie argued that a penal system that was based solely on punishment had produced crushed and embittered prisoners, that is why his Mark System emphasized incentives not punishment. However, the success of the Mark System was opposed by Australian colonists because it was a threat to their legal use of convicts as slaves.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; REHABILITATION of criminals; MACONOCHIE, Alexander; REINFORCEMENT (Psychology); CORRECTIONAL institutions; DETENTION facilities
- Publication
Behavior & Social Issues, 2008, Vol 17, Issue 2, p186
- ISSN
1064-9506
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5210/bsi.v17i2.2321