Social Offenders



Social Offenders

Social and Non-social offenders have become a significant problem for countries as the management fails to deal with these offenders effectively. Crime prevention strategies should target factors associated with numerous crimes committed by persons. They have suffered a deprivation of liberty and who have failed to find their place within the community as law-abiding citizens after their release from prison. Absence of material, psychological and social care of people facing such issues, magnifies this issue.

Most prisoners commit different social crimes, who have been convicted at least once before, in their youth or adulthood. One third of offenders have already had at least one conviction in the past, 75% of them were convicted on several occasions. If we want to increase the safety of our communities, the government and other authorities needs to develop effective interventions to help ex-offenders integrate into the community and avoid committing further crimes. Managing the process of rehabilitation of offenders and programs implemented in this area, are increasingly popular. They indeed offered a way to prevent crime and reduce costs. Thus, the policy makers and practitioners are showing increased interest in programs and strategies that will help inmates reintegrate into society without committing separate crimes (Sheehan, 2011).

The effectiveness of these programs, including their ability to facilitate the social integration of ex-offenders and reduce recidivism, however, is controversial. Currently, only few programs have been evaluated. Among the prevention projects implemented, most of them have been developed from evaluations of programs in related areas (such as drug treatment, employment training, counseling, custodial supervision Community): assessments whose results are also contradictory. Assumptions about what, in theory, should be effective, are not lacking. In return, the results of evaluation studies are daunting. Since most reintegration programs have not been controlled, it is not possible to identify the ...