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Rehabilitation
Also Known As Social Reintegration
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The correctional goal of re-educating offenders and addressing the underlying causes of their offending so they can be reintegrated into society without reoffending, pursued through programs from vocational training to therapeutic intervention. Norway, which structures its prison system around this goal, holds one of the lowest reimprisonment rates in the world, about 18 percent after two years as of 2018.
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Rehabilitation and deterrence are two of the standard, distinct justifications offered for criminal punishment, alongside incapacitation and retribution.
A heavily prisonized inmate's adaptation to the prison's own culture works against the aims of rehabilitation on release.
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1. Wikipedia: Rehabilitation (Penology)
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Rehabilitation is the process of re-educating criminal offenders and preparing them to re-enter society. The goal is to address the underlying root causes of crime in order to prevent recidivism once inmates are released from prison.
Wikipedia: Prisoner (Prisonization)
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taking on, in a greater or lesser degree, the folkways, mores, customs and general culture of the penitentiary
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