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Jul 13, 2022 · Whether they’re education courses, meaningful work opportunities or specific types of therapy, evidence suggests that rehabilitative programs can significantly reduce criminals’ risk of committing future crimes.
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Let me assume that rehabilitation is one hundred percent success-ful. This "total rehabilitation" exceeds the wildest dreams of dedicated proponents, but the assumption will help us focus on the crime rate. Total rehabilitation means that every convict who serves any sentence-be it thirty days, or thirty years, in prison or on probation-becomes a l...
[Vol. 73 whereas in the past they committed a far greater number of dental acts before rehabilitation. There would be a temporary decline of dental acts. But, if the demand for dentistry is unchanged, the reduced supply of dentists would augment the net advantage for people willing to com-mit dentistry. The higher net advantage very soon would attr...
car thieves, are readily replaced if the demand for their services does not decrease. Increased frequency of rehabilitation merely creates an oppor-tunity for others to provide these services at a sufficient net advantage to attract them. An increased rate of rehabilitation simply leads to a higher rate of first offenses by new entrants. As the net...
limited, rehabilitation could reduce the number of actual offenders. Probably there are more potential child molesters than actual ones. Still, the number of potential molesters is likely to be quite limited, if, as seems likely, child molesters have an idiosyncratic personality type which is not all that frequent.2 2 Hence, the greater the number ...
[Vol. 73 nomic reform and, specifically, of greater distributive equality, it could not replace deterrent threats and punishments as means of crime control. Thus, we are left in the main with manipulating the severity and frequency of punishment. Increases of either, in addition to direct ef-fects on the net advantage of crime, have important indir...
Does rehabilitation lose all value if it has no effect on the crime rate? Not if one is concerned with saving souls by influencing the moral fate of individual convicts. The moral value of rehabilitation then be-comes independent of any impact on the crime rate. Private secular as well as religious organizations are legitimately interested in the m...
if they did rehabilitate; hence they cannot be justified on any conse-quentialist social grounds. Nor do they contribute to justice. Justice is done according to what the offense deserves, whereas parole and work-release depend on a judgment of the offender's future behavior, or on an attempt to influence it. Whatever its merits, such an attempt is...
- Ernest Van Den Haag
- 1982
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