« The Children of Prisoners, the Hidden Victims of Crime - Newsletter 44 | Main | Is Crime on the Increase? What Can we Do About it? - Newsletter 46 »
Women in Prison - Newsletter 45
By Kim Workman | September 8, 2008
Celia Lashlie makes the point that if many of the women in prison had support prior to release, they would have changed the direction of their lives, and made the firm decision not to re-offend. On her reckoning. the lives of 98 people in their immediate sphere of influence. She considers that the Corrections system are missing out on an opportunity to change lives. What do you think?
Click here to read the newsletter
Topics: RECAP Newsletters |
One Response to “Women in Prison - Newsletter 45”
Comments
You must be logged in to comment, Click here to LOG IN
January 11th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
“She considers that the Corrections system are missing out on an opportunity to change lives. What do you think?”
If you visit the corrections website your’ll find the following information below. It states that corrections, after several decades of no rehabilitation, has only recently become aware that rehabilitation might work under some circumstances.
They have missed out on an opportunity to change lives [men and women] for 30yrs.
Until recently, the commonly held view was that ‘nothing works’ - established adult offenders continue offending until they ‘burn out’ sometime after the age of 40 years, and attempts to rehabilitate before then are pointless. More recently, however, reliable experimental evidence has accumulated suggesting that under certain circumstances rehabilitation can reduce the frequency and/or the seriousness of future offending, and occasionally shut it down entirely – ‘some rehabilitation programmes are successful with some offenders in some settings when applied by some staff’
http://www.corrections.govt.nz/news-and-publications/strategic-documents/about-time-contents/rehabilitation.html#Introduction