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Jul 24, 2018 · There are three issues this article explores: first, to unpack the theoretical and methodological issues in understanding the nebulous concept of ‘recidivism’; second, to provide a critique of the ‘risks–needs–responsivity’ model which has formed the basis of prison rehabilitation; and third, to suggest ways to mitigate the effects ...
Jun 9, 2015 · Not only does restorative justice offer deeper levels of engagement and rehabilitation, many argue it’s more cost effective, produces less recidivism, and is more satisfying to victims of crime than the current model. The VOEG is a project of the Insight Prison Project (or IPP), which began in 1997. The program aims to help incarcerated men ...
Nov 22, 2022 · The idea of criminal justice rehabilitation in the form of individual prevention inspired by the medical model as a part of the welfare state was presented in a 1956 state inquiry (SOU, 1956: 55), which became the foundation for the new Criminal Code. The current Swedish Criminal Code (Brottsbalken: SFS 1962: 700) has been in force since 1965.
Jun 27, 2016 · This is believed to result in improved moral responses. In a recent paper, Tom Douglas considers whether medical interventions of this sort could be “provided as part of the criminal justice system’s response to the commission of crime, and for the purposes of facilitating rehabilitation (Douglas in Journal of Ethics 18 (2): 101–122, 2014
Oct 3, 2020 · Published in Criminal Law and Philosophy 3 October 2020. Law. It is often said that the institutions of criminal justice ought or—perhaps more often—ought not to rehabilitate criminal offenders. But the term ‘criminal rehabilitation’ is often used without being explicitly defined, and in ways that are consistent with widely divergent ...
This article explores governing through rights in a penal context by analyzing a recent case before the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (the “Court” or “Supreme Court”), Brown v The Parole Board for Scotland et al. (UKSC 2017). The case involved a prisoner whose stay in prison was extended by several years beyond what the trial court ordered because he was unable to access offender ...
Widely implemented psychological interventions for people in prison to reduce offending after release need improvement. Publication bias and small-study effects appear to have overestimated the reported modest effects of such interventions, which were no longer present when only larger studies were included in analyses. Findings suggest that therapeutic communities and interventions that ...
