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Alternatives to Incarceration

Alternatives to Incarceration

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Incarceration is the state of confinement where non violent offenders could be exposed to hostile environment . Alternative programs provide better rehabilitation and successful reintegration to society . Some of them are controversial . One is less successful than the others

Incarceration is the state of confining an individual who committed a crime to prison for a certain period of time . The main purpose is rehabilitation . The offenders have the chance to correct the mistakes and upon release , the successful reintegration to society

. The justice system upholds the protection and safety of men , women and children . It enforces social control by penalizing criminals who violated the law Without the effective justice system , society will be in chaos with criminals running amok and on a wild spree for victims . Incarceration will serve as punishment for unmitigated violence (Champion , D . 1994

However incarceration per se is not the answer especially for non violent or first time offenders since prison is a favorable place to adapt hostile behavior with hardcore criminals lurking around Alternative programs were introduced reduce crime , cut prison costs help people and communities , build better societies . The programs best serve the purpose of rehabilitation and successful reintegration of offenders to society . It also reduces recidivism

Recidivism is a form of relapse where convicted criminal upon prison release reverts back in committing the same or other crime . The reason is due to series of failures failure of the individual to avoid trouble , failure of the...

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