REHABILITATION REVOLUTION

How could a 'rehabilitation revolution' work in practice?



Abstract

Rehabilitation is based on the assumption that there is always a reason for criminal behaviour in an individual. The people who end up breaking the law are usually the ones characterized by “criminogenic risk factors.” Now the all important question that needs to be answered is whether rehabilitation revolution works.

Contents

Introduction3

Discussion3

Social Reintegration4

The Challenges of the Release of the Ex-Offenders5

Risk Factors5

The Objectives and Characteristics of Reintegration Programs5

Institutional Programs6

Person Centred Approach6

Task Centred Work6

Solution focussed approach6

Anti-Oppressive Practices and Empowerment6

Attachment Theory7

Conclusion7

References8

How could a 'rehabilitation revolution' work in practice?

Introduction

A criminal justice system consists of the social and legal institutions that enforce the criminal law in confirmation to the defined procedures, limitations and rules. In the U.S, there are separate state, military and federal criminal justice systems. Each of the states has separate systems for juveniles and adults. This system also consist of subsystems which comprises of either one or more of the public institutions and their staff members which include police and the agencies responsible for enforcing laws, appellate and trial courts, public and prosecution defender offices; parole and probation agencies; custodial institutions (prisons, jails, halfway houses, reformatories, etc.); and the departments responsible either a few or all the functions of custodial, probation and parole functions). Criminal justice system is the state's legal apparatus for the use of public penal power. In brief, the criminal justice system is considered as the subsystem of the overall legal system of the state that is concerned with crime and punishment. The purpose of the criminal justice system is to secure social order on the territory of the state, by means of crime control through the punishment and rehabilitation.

The concept behind rehabilitation basically lies behind the assumption that the criminal behaviour 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 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 do's and what are the not do's, but a sane adult has complete knowledge about the consequences which he or she will have to face if a law is broken.

The rehabilitation revolution makes logic only if the criminal behaviour is not free willed but caused. If crimes were suppose to be free willed and a matter of choice then there would actually be nothing left to be corrected or changed or to be fixed within particular individuals. But if there are various factors which are associated with the crime committed, then it can be corrected and the reoffending can be deduced if the appropriate correctional interventions are provided and are able to alter those factors which caused the person to commit the crime (Braithwaite, 2009). Rehabilitation could be more focused on the bodily torture. It has been argued that Bodily punishment has been ...