Rehabilitation In Criminal Justice

The concept of rehabilitation in criminal justice rests on the assumption that criminal behavior is caused by some kind of factors. This perspective does not deny that people make choices to break the law, but it does assert that these choices are not a matter of pure "free will." Instead, the decision to commit a crime is held to be determined, or at least heavily influenced, by a person's social surroundings, psychological development, or biological. Individual differences shape how we behavior, including whether they are likely to break the law. When people are characterized by various such as a lack of parental love and supervision, exposure to delinquent peers, the internalization of antisocial values, or an impulsive temperament, we are more likely to become involved in crime than people not having these experiences and traits in their genes.
In my opinion prison is not a rehabilitating the offenders but to punished them. Correctional and medical treatment are alike in one other way that are good to rehabilitate the drug users as there are experts in those fields. Well trained doctors and officers with the relevant knowledge on how to treat their "clients," will guide the individualized treatment that would take place. In medicine, this commitment to training physicians in scientific expertise has been institutionalized, with
Retribution is non utilitarian and asserts that punishing offenders will cause them not to return to crime. Deterrence assumes that offenders are rational, in that increasing the cost of crime usually through more certain and severe penalties—will cause offenders to choose to go straight out of fear that future criminality will prove too painful, and that is called specific deterrence. When other people in society refrain from crime because they witness offenders' punishment and they will fear suffering of a similar