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    a. (2004‚ 10). UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF. Retrieved 12 3‚ 2011‚ from Justice Strategies: http://www.communityalternatives.org/pdf/unlocking_potential.pdf Austin‚ J Bergseth‚ J. A. (2008). The Impact of Reentry Services on Juvenile Offenders ’ Recidivism . Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice ‚ vol. 6‚ 3:295-318. Faye S. Taxman‚ P. D. (2002‚ 03 26). Offender’s Views of Reentry: Implications for. Retrieved 12 05‚ 2011‚ from National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NF?pS. }: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/196490

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    The development of meta-analytical techniques played a significant role in understanding the positive effects of implementing the RNR model for rehabilitation‚ reduced recidivism and thus crime prevention. Leading up to 1990‚ there had been some 500 large empirical studies conducted in relation to offender treatment. In 1989‚ one meta-analysis‚ reviewed over 400 treatment studies of juveniles delinquents‚ yielding 443 effect

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    Resolved: Rehabilitation ought to be valued above retribution in the United States criminal justice system... To clarify‚ I will provide the following definitions "ought" is a moral obligation. “retribution” is “Punishment that is considered to be morally right and fully deserved.” “rehabilitation” is “The restoration of someone to a useful place in society.” Since “ought” is defined as a moral obligation‚ the obvious value to look towards is morality. We need to value morality first because

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    Criminology and the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)‚ two social work journals (Australian Social Work and The British Journal of Social Work) and one general database (ProQuest) using a combination of the following key terms: recidivism‚ meta-analysis‚ criminology‚ community‚ systematic review and social work. I also manually searched relevant articles and abstracts to identify appropriate material. The search focused on studies that involved adults and young people‚ but excluded

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    Prison overcrowding has been an increasingly vital issue since the mid-1970s. Due to many different factors that directly relate to imprisonment such as increased punishment for crimes‚ carefully monitored drug laws‚ new criminal offenses‚ and a high recidivism rate‚ a large amount of inmates have been deprived of proper treatment while other ill mannered behavior has broken out within the prisons. A few main causes of overcrowding include an increase in returning customers and the effects of the “Three

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    Community corrections also insist of a non-monitoring of the offenders with electronic monitoring‚ or day reporting to even housed arrest. Community corrections affect and also minimize the amount of classed and rehabilitation of offenders. The recidivism rate is higher as community corrections affect the wants and need of the offenders corrective behaviors and with these programs‚ they make more profit when the offender cannot complete the programs which are put in place. In simple term they make

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    this is because of more people getting in trouble‚ jails are too full‚ or others may argue that the programs are not working to cut down recidivism rates. Regardless of what argument one makes this research paper shows results on how worth a program is based on money and recidivism rates and whether or not incarceration should be an option to reduce recidivism. In 2009‚ the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) requested $6.8 billion for prisoner detention‚ which is an increase of $136‚000

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    The article "The Impact of Career and Technical Education Programs on Adult Offenders: Learning Behind Bars" by Howard Gordon and Bracie Weldon (2003) studies of how prisoners receiving educations in prison reduces the recidivism rate. Gordon and Weldon studied the inmates who were participating in the educational programs at the Huttonsville Correctional Center in West Virginia and claimed that inmates who participated in the educational programs were less likely to recidivate once released back

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    impede the success of an ex-offender’s reentry into society. This essay will analyze the broad range of roadblocks faced by ex-offenders‚ the legislative origin of these issues‚ and prospective solutions that can cease the increasing percentage of recidivism nationally. Introduction

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    Evidence based practices are programs that are selected for use‚ that have been established by the best prior research‚ that has effectively adhered to the principles of effective intervention. The purpose of evidence based rehabilitation is to reduce recidivism and help inmates succeed once they are integrated back into the community. This is done by providing inmates with effective programs in academics‚ vocational skills‚ and substance abuse‚ to effectively improve offenders success in not reoffending

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