Legitimacy In Cavadino And Dignan

Cavadino and Dignan provide two traditional reasons for thinking we have a crisis; the Orthodox Account which encompasses components such as “understaffing which weakens security” and “conditions which are totally unsuitable” (Humphrey and May, 1997), and a moral crisis. The latter agrees with orthodox account but claims the reason we are at a ‘critical juncture’, is because there is this internal and external legitimacy crisis. The cause of the crisis of legitimacy is the collapse of the rehabilitative ideal. We don’t know ourselves as a society why we are imprisoning people anymore. If it is about rehabilitation, then question arises of where the resource are, and how do we go about doing so in the current conditions? If it is about incapacitation,