9 - Rehabilitation

Question 1

What relationship did Hood (1996) find between capital punishment and serious crime?

Answer 1

No relationship

Question 2

What do studies on deterrence (e.g. longer sentences) show about the effect on recidivism?

Answer 2

Little effect

Question 3

What is an ineffective approach to treating offenders?

Answer 3

Survival programs, vocational training without real job prospects, scared-straight programs

Question 4

What are the most effective therapies for reducing recidivism?

Answer 4

Cognitive behavioural therapies

Question 5

What is a cognitive-behavioural technique for treating violent offenders?

Answer 5

Increase offenders’ insights into their actions and model new ways of thinking and acting

Question 6

Why treat offenders?

Answer 6

Safeguard their health and dignity, reduce long-term detrimental effects on society, provide further perception of justice

Question 7

What should a good model of offender rehabilitation do?

Answer 7

Specify the aims of therapy, justify the aims of therapy based on etiology, identify clinical targets, outline treatment based on etiology and goals

Question 8

What is sexual offending from the lens of the good lives matter model?

Answer 8

A socially unacceptable way to obtain primary goods