The conventional wisdom in criminology is that treatment programs have
been found to be ineffective. This paper outlines several methods that may be
used to defend this wisdom: (1) contaminate the treatment, (2) stress the
criterion problem, (3) appeal to common sense, (4) demonstrate that re
habilitation is premised on faulty theory, and (5) seek universals. In addition,
methods for uncovering the tyranny inherent in all treatment programs are
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