Offender Life Change

looking at the bonds that can be created through a relationship, like marriage (attachment), the women may disapprove of any deviant acts causing the individual to make a life change (Cid&Marti, 2012, pg. 613). This new life partnership would be, as Laub and Sampson (1993) would declare, a turning point. While the second bond, which is pre-existing relationships (commitment), may not have deterred offending from the offender’s past, however, after the new circumstances of imprisonment, there is now a new role for the pre-existing commitment (Cid&Marti, 2012, pg. 613). The new role here is a sense of support which the offender would feel during imprisonment (or during any negative sanctions). This support could have a drastic impact on whether or not the offender makes a life change, to compensate the support for them while they were imprisoned (Cid&Marti, 2012, pg. 614). The study showed that support can contribute to the offender’s confidence in a conventional life. Even though they have faced obstacles, there is enough support needed for them to gain self-efficiency (Cid&Marti, 2012, pg. 615). …show more content…
People go into the prison system just to be released with the skills to put them right back into the prison. Mass incarceration is caused through tough on crime which is put to the extreme when looking at the United States, who’s incarceration rate is 6,851,000 inmates (Bureau of Justice Statistics). Mass incarceration does nothing to deter crime but does lead to overcrowding in jails. As pointed out by Eleanor Goldberg in her (2015) Huffington Post article, “overcrowding means less access to rehabilitative programs”, such programs needed to allow the offender to integrate themselves into society and try to avoid