The word treatment has multiple meanings, but in criminal justice and ethics, treatment refers to programs or therapies that aim to re-educate the behaviors of individuals or groups that are essentially dysfunctional while trying to encourage ways of behaving that are allow these individuals to cohabit with other people in more tolerable ways.
In this particular case, anything used to induce behavioral change with the goal of eliminating dysfunctional or deviant behavior end encouraging productive and normal behavior patterns is reffered to as: 3) Treatment.
