Its primary purpose is to aid in a reformative or educational process.
"The Holy Earth"
L. H. Bailey
Nor would it further our purpose to extract at length his views on the reformative efficacy of the convict system, as to which he was certainly over sanguine.
"Terre Napoleon A history of French explorations and projects in Australia"
Ernest Scott
Almost all the agencies in question do both a preventive and a reformative work, though, in the main, the tendency toward preventive work is stronger than that toward rescue work.
"Commercialized Prostitution in New York City"
George Jackson Kneeland