rehabilitation Flashcards
describe the aim of rehabilitation?
The aim of rehabilitation is to reform offenders so that they are less likely to commit offences in the future - aiming to change offenders behaviour.
Aims to tackle the reason why people have committed crime.
It is a forward-looking aim, with the hope that the offender’s behaviour will be altered by the penalty imposed, so that they do not offend in the future (it aims to reduce crime in this way).
The goal of rehabilitation is to reduce the likelihood of reoffending by addressing the underlying issues that led to criminal behaviour, such as substance abuse, lack of education etc.
punishments that meet the aim of rehabilitation
The aim of rehabilitation can be seen in community sentences.
Probation orders, for instance, could involve:
Unpaid work
Completion of a education or training course,
Treatments for addictions such as alcohol or drugs, for example, the Drug Treatment and Testing Order, which provides supervision in work on drug use.
links to unit 2 criminological theories
Sociological theories such as Left realism will favour rehabilitation as they regard social factors such as; unemployment, poverty and poor education as causes of crime. Therefore addressing these needs will help to reduce offending.
Rehabilitation would be supported by individualistic theorists. Treatments such as behaviour modification for anger management focus on techniques to extinguish undesirable behaviours and promote desirable ones.
