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Published in final edited form as: Adm Policy Ment Health. 2020 May;47(3):410–426. doi: 10.1007/s10488-019-00996-1

Table 6:

Attitudes toward Rehabilitation and Punishment

Subscales: The best way to reduce crime is to use…	Beginning of Study (n = 47) M (SD)	End of Study (n = 35) M (SD)
“Rehabilitation” as a goal of incarceration	4.68 (0.85)	4.87 (0.26)
“Deterrence” by making examples of prisoners	2.07 (0.85)	1.57 (0.72)
“Incapacitation” to keep prisoners off the streets	2.17 (0.78)	1.90 (0.76)
“Just Desserts” to make sure prisoners get what they deserve	1.71 (0.81)	1.36 (0.58)

Items are rated on a 1 to 5 Likert scale (from 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree)