Prison here also refers to jail, dentention centre, correctional facility and similar institutions for incarceration.
- ‘Changing the Pattern of Behaviour – Outline of a Therapy for Criminal Reform’ by Kenneth J. Maconochie argues that the Mark system and the Alexander Technique ‘in combination, approach nearer than any single system known to being a therapy of criminal reform’.[1] [2]
Kenneth Maconochie was the great-grandson of Captain Alexander Maconochie (1787–1860), pioneer in Penology, who was the inventor of the Mark System of penal discipline in 1840.[3] The system, of rewarding good behaviour, with more opportunities and freedom within a prison, is now adopted in various forms around the world. In the article ‘Changing the Pattern of Behaviour’ Maconochie argues that the Alexander Technique has much to offer a penal system in conjunction with the Mark System, especially in terms of making people more conscious of their choices and of the consequences of those choices.
References
[1] ‘Changing the Pattern of Behaviour - Outline of a Therapy for Criminal Reform’ by Kenneth J. Maconochie in The Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science, vol. 47, no. 2, July–August, 1956.
[2] Also available as a PDF on https://mouritz.co.uk/260.libraryitems.html.
[3] Maconochie's Experiment: How One Man's Extraordinary Vision Saved Transported Convicts from Degradation and Despair by John Clay (John Murray, 2001).
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