Recidivism

Many prisoners are put in prison for petty crimes or more serious crimes like felonies and capital crimes witch is just a felony that is more serious and there brought there to be removed from the public because depending on the crime or for some people even any crime people won’t want them in the same area as them because they’re afraid they might do something again and they won’t nothing to do with it so the Government makes laws to make it so if someone commits a crime there either put in…

other studies have different results. According to the article “Alternatives to the Secure Detention and Confinement of Juvenile Offenders,” “Teaching family homes produced an approximately 30-35 percent reduction in recidivism rates (juveniles not receiving treatment had a recidivism rate of 50 percent)” (Austin, 20). This statistic shows that group homes can have a positive impact on the…

Education programs in prisons help to reduce recidivism rates. These education programs can be used to help inmates with reentry, all across the country. Unfortunately, these programs, and subsequently the human rights of inmates, are in jeopardy. Due to financial and political reasons, some education programs are cut and enrollment in programs is dropping. Instead of funding and rehabilitating prisoners, money is directed at building more prisons. Additionally, legislation to support inmate…

Many animal-interaction programs in prison involve training support dogs for people in the community. Usually, training these dogs is expensive and unsuccessful but in prisons the results for the dogs are promising. Compared to 50% of the dogs trained by the general population being found fit to move on for further training, 87% of dogs trained in prisons met this criterion (Harkrader, Burke & Owen, 2004). These success rates are, in part, due to the extensive amount of time that the inmates can…

In the early 1990’s, negative perceptions of the prison system brought about the “Nothing Works” doctrine, which argued that rehabilitation programs are a waste of the public’s time and money when concerning criminal behavior. Therefore, the Nothing-Works doctrine was the beginning, and brought about the truth-in-sentencing laws that were enacted to reduce the possibility of early release from prison. The primary goal of the truth-in-sentencing laws was focused on retribution and was implemented…

Shock Incarceration & Boot Camp Programs Shock incarceration in “boot camps” have been around quite some time as a substitute for sentencing young offenders instead of sending them to prison. These boot camps have some advantages to them but also have some disadvantages as well. Some positive aspects of boot camps are that the offenders are not being sent to overcrowded prisons, at this boot camps the offenders are mandated to participate in programs that will rehabilitate these youthful…

captive audience for the dissemination of lawful instructions, advice and available options that work to improve the inmate's rehabilitation chances with a direct force on curing them of their drug addiction and thereby realizing a reduction in recidivism. However, founding for such programs are in short supply more importantly political backing is needed when challenge the prison system and law enforcement culture. (Carmichael, 2010). To summarize the issues involving inmate drug treatment…

the same outcome: decrease recidivism, improve the juvenile’s lives, and ensure the community is a safe place overall. However, with the public outcry and new laws being adopted, more juvenile delinquents are being bound over into the adult court system and sent to adult institutions. Throughout the years studies that have been conducted have proven sending youth as young as fourteen years-old to adult prisons is not the answer; this action is creating higher recidivism rates, violent youths,…

increase. Lawmakers should focus on ways to inhibit mass incarceration rather than adding to it. One preventative measure to reduce the amount of inmates is to implement education in prisons.The lack of education within prisons has long influenced recidivism rates, an issue which can be connected to institutional anomie theory, reintegrative shaming theory, and labeling theory. In order to prevent the creation of a repeat nonviolent offender, better programs must be established in prisons, such…

The fact that community corrections is intended to ensure Recidivism in the criminal justice system, both community corrections and probation represent an essential component in maintaining the primary mission of corrections to incarceration representing both a sustainable and cost-effective means of reducing recidivism. The lack of health care, and particular needs of special needs offenders are not adequately being met, the special needs of women, offenders with mental illnesses and sexual…