It is often said that the institutions of criminal justice ought or—perhaps more often—ought not to rehabilitate criminal offenders. But the term ‘criminal rehabilitation’ is often used without being explicitly defined, and in ways that are consistent with widely divergent conceptions. In this paper, we present a taxonomy that distinguishes, and explains the relationships between, different conceptions of criminal rehabilitation. Our taxonomy distinguishes conceptions of criminal rehabilitation on the basis of (i) the aims or ends of the putatively rehabilitative measure, and (ii) the means that may be used to achieve the intended end. We also explore some of the implications of each conception, some of the payoffs of a taxonomy of the kind we offer, and some areas for future work.

人们常说，刑事司法机构应该或者——也许更经常地——不应该为刑事犯罪者改过自新。但是，“刑事改造”一词的使用通常没有明确定义，而且使用方式与广泛不同的概念一致。在本文中，我们提出了一种分类法，用于区分和解释不同刑事康复概念之间的关系。我们的分类法根据（i）假定的康复措施的目的或目的，以及（ii）可用于实现预期目的的手段来区分刑事康复的概念。我们还探讨了每个概念的一些含义，我们提供的分类的一些收益，以及未来工作的一些领域。