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 | | In the 1960s and 1970s, the maximum-security Oak Ridge Division of the Mental Health Centre in Penetanguishene, Ontario, Canada, was the site of an ambitious treatment program that tried to alter the personality of participants so that they would be less likely to commit acts of violence when released into the community. |
 | | A version of this article was presented as part of an Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research in Public Policy address at the 104th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 1996. |
 | | I thank the Ontario Ministry of Health, the Ontario Mental Health Foundation, and the Solicitor General of Canada for providing the funding for much of the research reported in this article. |
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