Rehabilitation and Reintegration Research Paper
Running Head: REHABILITATION AND REINTEGRATION
Rehabilitation and Reintegration xxxx Delaware Technical & Community College
August 3, 2010
Abstract
To combat recidivism, correctional facilities are changing their focus from punishment towards rehabilitation. The examination of correctional methodology used in the United States, Japan, and Scotland offer profound insights into the growing trend to rehabilitate prisoners instead of punishing them. Through research, the evidence of innovative techniques geared to rehabilitate inmates in penal systems has proven to be of the utmost importance, ultimately leading to a heightened rate of success upon release. Although there is no utopian system in which an inmates needs are immediately assessed, new implementations have provided the foundation for prison reform on a global scale.
Recidivism and Reintegration As prison overcrowding becomes a global concern, one must question the effectiveness of correctional facilities that focus on punishment. To combat recidivism, correctional facilities are exploring reform to better prepare inmates for reentry into society through rehabilitation. Correction facilities need to increase focus on rehabilitation rather than punishment to reduce the rate of recidivism. Many inmates come from a background of low education, poverty, and substance dependency. With such staggering odds against them, many facilities are conceiving new ways to aid inmates in correcting many inherent disadvantages that oppose them thus maintaining order and purpose within their systems. In this paper I will examine the importance of rehabilitation in treatment focus, and the subsequent results that lead to a lower recidivism rate amongst correctional facilities in the U.S., Japan, and Scotland. The purpose of prison in the United States has historically served to separate those who perpetrate the law from the population. “More than 600,000
Rehabilitation and Reintegration xxxx Delaware Technical & Community College
August 3, 2010
Abstract
To combat recidivism, correctional facilities are changing their focus from punishment towards rehabilitation. The examination of correctional methodology used in the United States, Japan, and Scotland offer profound insights into the growing trend to rehabilitate prisoners instead of punishing them. Through research, the evidence of innovative techniques geared to rehabilitate inmates in penal systems has proven to be of the utmost importance, ultimately leading to a heightened rate of success upon release. Although there is no utopian system in which an inmates needs are immediately assessed, new implementations have provided the foundation for prison reform on a global scale.
Recidivism and Reintegration As prison overcrowding becomes a global concern, one must question the effectiveness of correctional facilities that focus on punishment. To combat recidivism, correctional facilities are exploring reform to better prepare inmates for reentry into society through rehabilitation. Correction facilities need to increase focus on rehabilitation rather than punishment to reduce the rate of recidivism. Many inmates come from a background of low education, poverty, and substance dependency. With such staggering odds against them, many facilities are conceiving new ways to aid inmates in correcting many inherent disadvantages that oppose them thus maintaining order and purpose within their systems. In this paper I will examine the importance of rehabilitation in treatment focus, and the subsequent results that lead to a lower recidivism rate amongst correctional facilities in the U.S., Japan, and Scotland. The purpose of prison in the United States has historically served to separate those who perpetrate the law from the population. “More than 600,000
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