Like what Xavier said in his argument, the government would wasting money on the prisoners, I believe that’s true the government is helping giving the prisoners a second chance and to be educated. Voluntary, prisoners have a choice to choose whether or not they'd want to do the job, but according to law the prison labor is recommended for these people and to help them. Though they may seem vicious and cruel it shouldn’t stop them from gaining new skills for a job industry. Employment may include baker, laundry, kitchen, wood work, retailer shops, farming, gardening, community work and cleaning. This form of labor can help with their rehabilitation.
As long the program concentrate on making sure the offender continue to work upon their rehabilitation and work upon become activate member of society it will work, even when the community may not appreciate having re-form convicts living in proximity of their families. In order for probation and community correction programs to continue they must make sure they evolve with the times. The programs should focus to make sure that the convicts are getting the most up-to-date rehabilitation that will help them focus on behavior issues and improvement, abilities such as skills, education, and so forth to further aid them with the reintegration back into society as a activate and productive member. I feel education and corruptive job programs which will take on hiring convicts. If we focus on these we can keep the convicts from relapse into their old ways, and truly be successful in community programs and rehabilitation.
The Functionalist approach to the study of crime states that crime has two positive functions for society. Durkheim claims that crime retains boundary maintenance. He states that crime produces a reaction from society, effectively uniting its members in condemnation of the wrongdoer and reinforcing their commitment to the shared norms and values. Secondly, he claims that all acts of social change start with an act of deviance, so in the long run deviant tendencies will give rise to a new culture and morality. For example, the wishing for African-American rights in America included several acts of deviance by breaking several laws yet it paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement.
While looking at these reports I also noticed that discrimination in race had a tendency to be a contribution to many of the crimes in the reports. I’ll begin by saying based on the data I found on the FBI.gov. Site about Violent crimes, the first thing I noticed in one of the tables was the high number of deaths related to Homicide. In this time frame there were a total of 12,996 homicides, of that 10,058 were noted to be male and either white, black or unknown ethnicity, 2,918 female white, black or unknown ethnicity, or 20 were unknown. Why would these numbers be so high I ask myself?
"National Crime Vicitimization Survey" Submitted to Grantham University By Ken Thomson 12/19/2013 The Bureau of Justice Statistics started sponsoring the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) in 1973. These surveys provide a detailed picture of crime incidents, victims, and trends. The surveys are gathered due to more then half of victims not reporting their experiences to the police which means they can not measure all the annual criminal activity. Not only do they provide information on criminal incidents that have occurred, but also sees who is at risk of falling victim to crime. This information also shows where and when individuals are most likely to become victimized.
Most of the inmate have to wait until their sentences is done before they are released from jail because of the nature of their crime or if they were fighting in jail to cause more time to be added to their stay in jail. Now I think that the system is set up just fine and can do its job as long as the system is not overloaded from all of the criminals release too early so as to overwhelm the probation officers. We can make the system work for the people this long I think it will keep working. Community Corrections based on the principal of relieving jails of overcrowding, and to helping the community with projects to complete in the and around the community’s. It is labor for their community and to use the criminal for the purpose to help stop recidivism.
I believe when the offenders commits a crime and is incarcerated for a length of let say 3 to 5 years he or she would benefit from the structure training that would be received for them, it seems to me that the punishment of the offenders, is what happens though, the rehabilitation does work. But the funding is not available to continue with the help that our prison system needs to get the offender off the streets in a home and a regular job to support his family on himself. I researched a program called CAP/Construction Apprentice Program, in the state of Utah, the programs conduct a test of his education levels, his attitudes are identified in reception on orientation, he has the opportunity to enroll in a two-year Vocational training college degree program in building trades. I believe this works, at just needs to implemented in more states so overcrowding is not a problem and there are fewer less antomosity among the inmates they have a common goal when in a structure environment is the most manageable for the guards and other fellow inmates. The program teaches the offenders the skills needed upon release back into society.
Have we as a society done enough to help our brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, and friends in regards to helping them to reintegration into society? How can we help so that they do not end up in incarceration again? How can we help so that they can have a job, health care, and a place to sleep and call it a home? The solution to all these questions is a second chance for ex-offenders to become worthwhile members of our societies. An instance is Tim Baker an ex-offender who for a brief time period though about taking his own life because of what he had to go through as an ex-convict.
Everyone deserves a second chance, and if someone or themselves are willing to pay the bail, they will probably appreciate it and start changing their actions (giving back to community or society with a regretting mind). There is a human rights law that declares “We all live free and equal.” Everyone, even criminals fit in that category and they deserve to live a balanced life, but as a punishment, they are not living a free life. If the prisoner has committed a terrible crime, police could still monitor him/her by putting them under house arrest. That way, they will not be allowed to depart their home but they can still live a customary life. Furthermore, life is too short, and many agonizing years should not be spent in prison, especially after their lesson is comprehended.
First of all prison system provides the Vocational education training (VET) which helps in gaining the employment in future and therefore likely to work in the civilized society and less likely to reoffend (Weatherburn, 2004). Secondly imprisonment system also focuses on cognitive behaviour therapy which changes the offender attitude, belief and thinking patterns (Howells and Day, 1999). And finally physical activities like exercise affect the physical and mental health of the individual in positive way (Nelson, Specian, Tracy, and Demelto, 2006). Such types programs seem to make prisoners law abiding citizen and prevent committing further crime in the society. The vocational educational and training (VET) is one of the important rehabilitative program because it aims towards providing necessary skills to the prisoners.