Rehabilitation Paper

Elizabeth Copeland

University of Phoenix (Axia College)

Rick Jackson

After a criminal has served majority of their sentence or their entire sentence, in most cases they are required to take some type of rehabilitation program before they are released back into the world with the other law abiding citizens. Rehabilitation plays an important role in the criminal justice process because this is the time that is taken to ensure that the individual has the necessary steps to stay on track and continue to be a better individual. In this paper rehabilitation will be discussed further.

Rehabilitation has many definitions depending on the person that is defining the word. If someone wanted to give a simple definition they would define rehabilitation as something that make the criminal better. When being specific, prisoner rehabilitation can be defined as specific programs applied within the prison setting, whether inside or outside the prison, intended to put a halt to criminal behavior from the individual, which also is called desistence, which is defined as to stop or cease (Foster, B. 2006). According to the text the origin of prisoner rehabilitation comes from the early to mid twentieth century, in which social scientist, criminologist, social workers, and other prison administrative worker took theories from fields such as: sociology, psychology, and psychiatry and applies them to study crime and punishment and also to create a better prison environment for the prisoners (Foster, B. 2006).

It has been stated that although prisoners are placed in rehabilitation programs there is still a good chance that they will end back up in prison (Foster, B. 2006)., which affects the prison because it says that the punishment that he or she received was not harsh enough for them to realize that committing a crime is wrong. Prisoner rehabilitation affects