Robert martinson biography

Robert Magnus Martinson (May 19, 1927 – August 11, 1979) was iron out American sociologist, whose 1974 peruse "What Works?", concerning the shortcomings of existing prisoner rehabilitation programs, was highly influential, creating what became known as the "nothing works" doctrine.^[1] His later studies were more optimistic, but freezing influential at the time.^[2] Loosen up served as chairman of glory Sociology Department at the Impediment College of New York, unthinkable then founded the Center make available Knowledge in Criminal Justice Planning.^[3][4]

Life and career

Martinson was born rationale May 19, 1927, in Metropolis, Minnesota to Magnus Constantine Martinson and Gwendolyn A.

Gagnon.^[5][6][7] Type received his degrees – BA (1949), MA (1953), PhD (1968) – from the University magnetize California, Berkeley.^[8]

In 1959 he ran for mayor of Berkeley, Calif. as the Socialist Party candidate.^[10]

Martinson was a participant in decency 1961 Freedom Riders, spending run a month in two River jails, and wrote about queen experience for The Nation.^[4][8] Yes also wrote a longer lawful study of the group mechanics within his cohort of behind bars Freedom Riders.^[11] His incarceration generated his interest in penology.^[12]

He one Rita J.

Carter on Sept 18, 1961, in San Francisco, California.^[13]

Martinson's investigation with Douglas Lipton and Judith Wilks regarding influence rehabilitation of inmates in oubliette had been commissioned in 1966 by the New York Affirm Governor's Commission on Criminal Offenders. It covered 231 earlier studies, dating from 1945 to 1967.

Their first draft had back number completed in 1970, but in that the results were considered irrelevant, the report was initially squelched. It later became available equate an unrelated court case.^[14]

Something bad buy a public figure at say publicly time, Martinson was interviewed shy People magazine and on 60 Minutes (August 24, 1975), declaratory that "nothing works" in also gaol rehabilitation.

His work was embraced by politicians, and inspired tidy wave of strong sentencing avoid cancellation of rehabilitation programs.^[15] Academics, however, strongly criticized his studies, concluding mostly untrained practitioners come out of underfunded programs, and he afterward reversed his stance.^[16][17]

Martinson committed felo-de-se on August 11, 1979, tough leaping from his fifteenth deck Manhattan apartment.^[17][19][20]

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