Rehabilitation

• The aim of rehabilitation is to reform offenders and reintroduce them into society. Unlike retribution ir is a forwards looking aim with a hope that the offenders' behaviour will be altered and they will not reoffend. Also known as reformation, this aim presumes that criminal behaviour is a result of free will and rational choice. In other words, it is caused by factors that the defendant can actually do something about.
• The aim of rehabilitation can be seen in the community sentences. Probation orders, for instance, could involve unpaid work or completion of an education or training course and treatment for addictions such as alcohol or drugs. This may aid rehabilitation. The abuse of drugs causes many crimes and there have been punishments introduced to help rehabilitate the offenders. For example, the Drug Treatment and Testing Order, which provides supervision on work on drug use.
• Think Theory


  Individualistic theories of criminality would support rehabilitation as an aim of punishment. For instance, behaviour modifications treatments such as anger management courses focus on techniques to extinguish undesirable behaviors and desirable ones.