title: Treatment and justice.
abstract: Support for the belief that criminal behaviour was amenable to treatment served different purposes: for developing psychiatry it offered a module of power to be exploited whereas for the State it was a convenient disguise for the infliction of pain which was the real intention of punishment. Having served its purpose the treatment approach is being abandoned in favour of a philosophy of just deserts which is more acceptable in the present political climate.
mesh_terms: D003415:Crime; D003416:Criminal Law; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D010349:Patient Compliance; D011678:Punishment; D012917:Social Adjustment; D006113:United Kingdom