Parole and reintegration
I do agree with this theoretical ideology for parole and reintegration. For one, parole and reintegration enables most of jailed offenders to benefit from a transition period into the community before completing their sentence. Whereas imprisonment in required in most cases to ensure that the society is protected, deter criminal activity and punish criminal acts, it has restricted ability to prepare prisoners to come back to the free world (Bazemore & Karp, 2014). Parole allows a period of transition, testing, and help, which affords a continuous measure of protection to the society and at the same time, allowing the prisoner to establish themselves as productive and law-abiding community members (Braithwaite, 1989).
Secondly, the society benefits from a successful parole and reintegration program. A majority of the imprisoned offenders ultimately complete their sentence and go back to the community. Provided that imprisonment is restricted by definition in its ability to advance successful reintegration of ex-prisoners like productive community members, parole can offer a beneficial means of enhancing successful reintegration (Harding et al., 2016). It results in decreasing needless costs for continued imprisonment while, at a similar time, maintaining a suitable degree of control and supervision to make sure that the society is continuously protected.
Lastly, parole and reintegration serves to reduce the rates of recidivism (Zhang, Roberts & Callanan, 2016). Parole and reintegration assists offenders to obtain the skill sets needed to succeed in the community, tackle individual challenges and the aspects linked to their criminal conduct, and establish the needed and relationships in the community. Furthermore, some reintegration programs seek to target risk factors associated with recidivism, the needs of offenders and the challenges they face after leaving prison. All of these serve to reduce the likelihood of prisoners from reoffending.
References
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Braithwaite, J. (1989). Crime, Shame and Reintegration. Cambridge, England: Cambridge
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Harding, D. J., Morenoff, J. D., Dobson, C. C., Lane, E. B., Opatovsky, K., Williams, E. D.
G., & Wyse, J. (2016). Families, prisoner reentry, and reintegration. In Boys and men in African American families (pp. 105-160). Springer, Cham.
Zhang, S. X., Roberts, R. E., & Callanan, V. J. (2016). Preventing parolees from returning to
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