Rehabilitation Process In Rehabilitation

Throughout the years, many processes have been created to form the rehabilitation process of criminal justice. This process has reached out to many offenders and their families by allowing them to return to the community as changed individuals. Rehabilitation has many different process, but most, if not all have been proven successful in returning offenders to the community as changed individuals. Rehabilitation is defined as a return to a previous form. In criminal justice, rehabilitation is referred as a designed attempt to change attitudes and behaviors of inmates, concentrating on the prevention of an inmate's future criminal behaviors (Seiter, 2011). Since the creation of prisons, the focus on prisons in the United States was based on

In Russia, prison is the most severe form of punishment besides the death penalty. Russian court decisions can be appealed only once a higher court decision cannot be appealed. If the U.S adopted the Russian prison system, we as a team believe the number of repeat offenders would significantly decrease. The use of correctional camps that focus on manual labor with poor, harsh conditions would drive the people from having to return to these facilities. Another example of a foreign prison includes the Israeli prison. Israel's prison system is similar to the America's because they focus on rehabilitation. All of the prisons are ran by the government with only two jails, used for pre-sentence offenders. One difference for Israeli prisoners is the use of furlough's that allows the prisoner a short time period release (Sebba, Horovitz and Geva, 2003). Israel is a very strict country, but may seem less strict on crime. For example, misdemeanor crimes are any crime punishable by a prison sentence between three months and three years, while felonies range from three years to capital punishment. Throughout the years, justice has continued to be served thanks largely to the ever-evolving criminal justice system. This system has not only been successful in convicting offenders, but also aids ex-offenders so that they may return into the communities through rehabilitation. While there are different approaches and processes considered to provide a decrease in repeat offenders, there is little doubt that rehabilitation is a crucial element in obtaining a crime-free