SETTING SUPERVISION GOALS: TOWARDS AN END TO THE NONSYSTEM

From early in this century, those involved in the Criminal Justice System concluded that it should be approached as a discipline and subject to the empiricism of cause and effect. However, coupled with certain erroneous presumptions, the failure to adequately define the problem at the outset has prevented agreement and conclusion on objectives, and efforts undertaken seem at times to aggravate the crime problem. Construction of an etiological typology of criminal offenders uncovers the real objectives for a Criminal Justice System and shows what strategies should be developed. A typology recognizing crime as a manifestation of normal, conformist conduct as well as deviant conduct leads to the conclusion that there are multiple objectives to be achieved by a Criminal Justice System. These objectives, then, show the need for strategies of support, management, deterrence, retribution, and protection.