REHABILITATION

Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation

Introduction

There are over two million people in the United States prisons (prison stats). This shows that the US imprisons more of their own people than anywhere else in the world. This is because Americans believe generally that they should and can rehabilitate their criminals. The concept behind this lies in the fact that they believe that the deviate can be molded in to being a productive member of their society. Whether this is possible or not and that whether these traditional prisons are really the way to achieve this rehabilitation is a question that is very much open for a debate (Andrews et al, 1998). In the united states each day the correctional system looks over these six million of its residents with two million in jail and over 4 million who are either on a parole or probation. With this much amount of people who are under its control the correctional system hopes to accomplish a central policy issue with those people who it places under community supervision or put them behind bars.

The American penitentiary since its inception in the 1820s, the corrections has clinched as a very significant goal the transformation of the law non abiders in to the law abiding which is treatment or rehabilitation. The goals at times of the reforming offenders have been prevailing, and at other times challenge has been brought forward towards its usefulness and legitimacy and its influence on the correctional policy being reduced. But even after years of its prolonged advocacy of getting hard on the criminals in the late 1900s, the rehabilitation maintains its integral part of the correctional venture and still continues to gain support by the public in the United States of America (Andrews et al, 1998).

In this paper we explore in detail the whole concept behind rehabilitation and use a historical perspective to evaluate the changing nature and the support as a correctional goal over the time for rehabilitation (Adam et al, 1994). We also discuss the current treatment models that could be found in the correctional system today. Perhaps the most useful consideration is the fact that whether the rehab is working to deduct the likelihood that the offenders will get treated or returns back to the crime they were convicted of. Then further we talk about correctional system in the criminal justice process and the role of probation, parole and mandatory release programs the types of community correction options available to inmates and how the integration of community corrections affects the society in which it is practiced (Bouffard et al, 2000).

Discussion

The concept behind rehabilitation basically lies behind the assumption that the criminal behavior is emerged due to some factor associated to the accused. This does not deny the fact that people break the law by choice, but it does affirm that these choices that these criminals make are not purely based on free will. Considering the fact that, only a insane or a child does not know have the knowledge about what are the ...