How To Reduce Recidivism

The role of psychiatric facilities has shifted to focusing inpatient programs on acute stabilization and most of the treatment is left to the community-based providers. Although long-term hospitalization has been reduced, the rates of readmission have increased. There are prepositions that these increased rates of readmission are due to the failure of community-based intervention programs and the failure of previous admissions due to brief hospital stays. However, neither of these reasons has been found to be the cause of increased readmissions. Romansky, Lyons, Lehner and West (2003) investigated environmental and service delivery factors as well as clinical characteristics connected with readmission. They studied factors affecting the psychiatric …show more content…
However, where a youth has already committed a crime the objective of the system is to prevent the youth from committing the crime again. Recidivism is, therefore, an indicator of the effectiveness of the juvenile system. Approaches in the reduction of recidivism include institution based interventions, therapy programs, and clinical interventions. Community-based programs have also been used to compliment these programs. A reduction in funding options has prompted an investigation of the most effective approaches in reducing recidivism and identified community based interventions as more effective than clinical interventions. Despite of the effectiveness of these interventions, similar family environments increase the chances of reoffending. Invoking family participation in the intervention process has been suggested to reduce the chances of reoffending (Hess, Arner, Sykes & Price, …show more content…
The authors reviewed programs using in-house intervention with paraprofessional workers. The authors sought to evaluate the effectiveness of this intervention and the reasons that make the approach effective in reducing recidivism. The participants of the study were youth from the juvenile court. The findings of the study indicate that programs using in-ho use intervention with paraprofessional workers reduced attitudes associated with antisocial behavior, rebelliousness, and attitude favoring drug abuse. These findings show that this intervention played an important role in reducing recidivism. The limitations of the study include the fact that the attitudes of the parents were not measured and the comparison group might have been affected by other re-offense