Rehabilitation focuses on how the nature and duration of the punishment should be based on the offender’s need for treatment and potential for reform. The punishment should continue until the offender has been rehabilitated. According to Introduction to Criminal Justice, “Evaluations of education, vocation, and work programs indicate that they may be able to lower recidivism rates and increase postrelease employment” (Siegal et al., 2016, p. 546). Some of the programs that have produced positive results both in the community and inside the correctional institutions are: teaching of interpersonal skills, providing individual counseling, making use of behavior modification techniques, use of cognitive-behavior therapy, stress improving moral reasoning, and combining in-prison therapeutic communities with follow-up community
Rehabilitation focuses on how the nature and duration of the punishment should be based on the offender’s need for treatment and potential for reform. The punishment should continue until the offender has been rehabilitated. According to Introduction to Criminal Justice, “Evaluations of education, vocation, and work programs indicate that they may be able to lower recidivism rates and increase postrelease employment” (Siegal et al., 2016, p. 546). Some of the programs that have produced positive results both in the community and inside the correctional institutions are: teaching of interpersonal skills, providing individual counseling, making use of behavior modification techniques, use of cognitive-behavior therapy, stress improving moral reasoning, and combining in-prison therapeutic communities with follow-up community