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Volume 56, Number 11 · July 2, 2009

Corrections

By The Editors

In response to America's Prisons: Is There Hope? (June 11, 2009)

In the June 11 issue, in Helen Epstein's review of Sunny Schwartz'sDreams from the Monster Factory, the psychiatrists James Gilligan and Bandy Lee found that among those who took the sixteen-week course of the Resolve to Stop the Violence Project, there was an 80 percent reduction in "violent rearrest," not overall recidivism, which was also reduced but less significantly. And it was Suzanne Retzinger, not Thomas Scheff, who did a study finding that aggression was almost always linked to shame.


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