Dealing with offenders.

... Assignment 1 Reading: dealing with offenders A- Summary The chapter start by looking at the role of punishment .The purpose of imprisonment is mainly containment of offenders, their treatment and re-training. However prison authorities have accepted that training and treatment are no longer important priorities and achievable aims. These days imprisonment is seen more as the protection it offers to society, rather than as an environment which can change the individuals criminal lifestyle. It considers why prisons are ineffective in changing behavior and which methods appears to be more effective in trying to prevent offenders from committing further crime. There are many reasons why prisons are largely ineffective in preventing re-offending, two of the main reasons being that firstly 95 percent of those who commit crimes are not convicted and secondly those who are punished are sentenced months if not years after they have committed the crime. Wide ranges of methods, which

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