Abstract
The dilemmas that confront correctional personnel regarding methodological issues such as use of authority, value issues such as the concept of self-determination, and theoretical issues such as the "sickness" versus the "badness" of deviants are not unique to correction, but pervade all areas of social work. Social work has become doctrinaire on the use of authority, social work has oversimplified and overemphasized self-determination, and social work has confused normative and descriptive use of language with its emphasis on the "sickness" of deviants. Correction, because it has dealt with these issues the most realistically, can help to reconcile these dilemmas.
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