Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation begin in the 1900s to help the renovations of the correctional system such as implementation of indeterminate sentencing, parole, probation, and a separated juvenile system. So, for seven-decade offender treatment ruled as the dominate in corrections philosophy. But, in the early 1970s, rehabilitation suffered a sudden and dramatic setback and liberals blamed rehabilitation for allowing the State to use force or threats against offenders, and conservative blame rehabilitation for allowing the State to be mercify toward offenders. Rehabilitation focus on three main issues; to plan or state clear and in detail; to change some aspect of the offender that cause the offender criminal behavioral; and to reduce recidivism, but rehabilitation
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Meanwhile, Aos and his colleagues at Washington State Institute for Public Policy conducted a review on the effectiveness of adult correctional programs; and their review suggested that some correctional programs do work to reduce recidivism. According to Aos and his co-workers (2007), “These are the programs that works; adult drug courts; in-prison therapeutic communities; cognitive behavioral drug treatment in prison; community and drug-based treatment, general and specific cognitive behavioral treatment for sex offenders in prison and in the community; employment training and job assistance in the community; treatment-oriented intensive community supervision; correctional industry; and vocational educational programs in prison. They also named some programs that need more research conducted such as; case-management in the community for drug offenders; therapeutic communities for mentally ill offenders; faith-based programs; and domestic violence courts.” Aos and his co-workers also identified two programs that their evidence suggested did not work well such as; boot camp and electronic monitoring (Lattimore,
Meanwhile, Aos and his colleagues at Washington State Institute for Public Policy conducted a review on the effectiveness of adult correctional programs; and their review suggested that some correctional programs do work to reduce recidivism. According to Aos and his co-workers (2007), “These are the programs that works; adult drug courts; in-prison therapeutic communities; cognitive behavioral drug treatment in prison; community and drug-based treatment, general and specific cognitive behavioral treatment for sex offenders in prison and in the community; employment training and job assistance in the community; treatment-oriented intensive community supervision; correctional industry; and vocational educational programs in prison. They also named some programs that need more research conducted such as; case-management in the community for drug offenders; therapeutic communities for mentally ill offenders; faith-based programs; and domestic violence courts.” Aos and his co-workers also identified two programs that their evidence suggested did not work well such as; boot camp and electronic monitoring (Lattimore,