Colombia’s Police Department finds The Way to Happiness is key to fighting that nation’s corruption.

o discussion of The Way to Happiness’ impact would be complete without a word regarding the criminal reform program utilizing that booklet. Known as Criminon, this program is further based upon Mr. Hubbard’s discoveries on the cause and prevention of crime as determined through the course of his own work as a Los Angeles law enforcement officer in the late 1940s. “If you want to rehabilitate a criminal,” he had written, “just go back and find out when he did lose his personal pride. Rehabilitate that one point and you don’t have a criminal anymore.” With Mr. Hubbard’s The Way to Happiness and key principles from Scientology, Criminon accomplishes just that.

     Again the program is unique. Like Narconon, it relies upon no drugs or punitive restraints, but rather appeals to what Mr. Hubbard described as the basic goodness within all men. If such an approach seems unlikely among hardened criminals, the results speak for themselves. Headquartered in Los Angeles, Criminon today runs programs in more than 300 prisons and penal institutions in 39 states. Thus far, more than 3,200 inmates have successfully participated in the programs and have embarked upon new, crime-free lives without the normal recidivism.