Recidivism

Tertiary prevention focuses on the offender after crime has happen, with the main focus being on deterrence and rehabilitation to prevent from re-offending. Tertiary prevention reduces the recidivism rate and insures that appropriate steps are taken so that the victim is not re-victimized. In the United States the primary form of tertiary prevention is incapacitation. Tertiary prevention does not stop criminals from committing crimes after their release but protects the population from…

post-release care. The purpose of this paper is to show the prevalence of substance abuse under our nation’s correctional supervision and the impact that rehabilitation programs have on offenders. Substance abuse is the main cause for high recidivism. Release and recidivism are of particular interest in criminal justice given that the mean incarceration length is only 21-28 months. (Lynch & Sabol, 2001) It is even more prevalent recently due to the spike in released individuals from 170,000 in…

Justice Statistics, 2014). With the average cost to house an inmate being $31,286 per year taxpayers and prisons are looking for ways to reduce recidivism (Vera Institute of Justice, 2012). Non-traditional rehabilitative programs such as gardening, animal-human interaction, education and religion are new techniques being implemented in an attempt to reduce recidivism rate. Pre- 1970s, gardening was a common activity in many penitentiaries in the United States. With the rise of a “get tough on…

The United States Correctional System is part of the criminal justice system which focuses in supervising offending offenders under the authority of probation or parole agencies and those incarcerated in state or federal prisons or local jails. Throughout the years, the prison system has revolutionized from focusing on custody to rehabilitation, and then shifting into crime control. In today’s prison system, correction facilities have emphasized the importance of incarceration by focusing on…

ideas are multisystemic therapy, functional family therapy, and multidimensional therapy; also, programs that incorporate academic instruction, assign youth development workers, or specialized treatment (cite). The programs have shown to reduce recidivism rates when implemented (cite). Thirdly, the researcher suggests changing the financial incentives where funds are divided more evenly and with fixed budgets in place so that funding is not wasted and resources are used more appropriately (cite)…

This research analyzes the factors that impact the recidivism rates among female offenders (Herbst, Branscomb-Burgess, Gelaude, et all, 2016). They analyzed the differences between female offenders who had been incarcerated for the first time and those who had been incarcerated multiple times. This is of importance because the reasons as to why female offenders go to jail more than once can result in the discovery of what drove them to make their decisions. Herbst, Branscomb-Burgess, Gelaude, et…

Video Critique 3– Parole getting out and staying out This documentary gave an insight on the life of inmates in prison. How, many offenders go in and out of prison sometimes because they get “institutionalized.” The film follows the life inside the prison, transitioning out of prison, and how parole works once they make their way out of prison and back into society. (Parole: Getting Out and Stayng Out) This brought to light what it’s like for an offender to go into prison and the critical…

while incarcerated are significantly more likely to be given a prison sentence for any drug related crimes compared to a first time offender (Lurigio and Loose, 2008). Even upon release, the odds are against them. According to Petersilia, the recidivism rate in Los…

surrounded itself with the attempt to determine if rehabilitative programs within a particular setting, such as a boot camp, reduced recidivism. The author’s performed their study regarding this very subject around the state of Pennsylvania’s Motivational Boot Camp Program. The boot camp program had two primary focuses which was to reduce prison overcrowding and recidivism. In order to be eligible to be considered for this boot camp program, an offender must meet the following guidelines:…

This is an inferior punishment because it, once again, does not guarantee the seriousness of the justice system. It is consequently a failure of positive punishment because it may not instill fear in the prisoner and could promote recidivism. In order to improve this situation, the appropriate sentence, with little room for leniency, must be imparted upon the defendant so it will be guaranteed that the prisoner does not commit the crime again; along with the affirmation of the consistency…