Very recommendable!
Rehabilitation is a subject that has been discussed for at least the past 5-6 decades!
A sober assessment! There is no panacea yet! If one's calling is to be a criminal, then one probably remains a criminal for life.
I guess, besides offering help to change a criminal's life is close 24 hour monitoring of released repeat offenders is necessary plus significantly increased incarceration with every new crime.
Caveat: I did not read the entire long article.
"... We show how rhetoric has caused treatments to seem more successful than honest data analysis reveals them to be. Nearly all such programs have either failed or been almost impossible to replicate in clinical trials. We then detail how political narratives have bolstered misleading claims about rehabilitation’s successes and highlight the wasteful investments that have ensued, citing Washington State’s juvenile rehabilitation programs as the embodiment of all these issues. ...
For over a century, Americans have searched for ways to rehabilitate criminal offenders. Despite our best efforts, in the aggregate, we have been unable to produce even minuscule reductions in overall recidivism. As influential scholar Robert Martinson soberly concluded decades ago: some programs work for people some of the time. When new rehabilitation treatments emerge and show promise, advocates and officials too quickly react by overpromising and moralizing, before subsequent results fail to confirm early findings. ...
Though politically unsavory, the fact is that high recidivism rates are the historical norm and have never substantively changed. After a hundred years of theorizing, testing, evaluating, and criticizing, social science has consistently demonstrated that serious criminal behavior remains stubbornly stable over time, situation, and place.
Those who commit crimes today will be those who commit crimes tomorrow, and they will be the same people who commit crimes until they are incapacitated by age, infirmity, imprisonment, or death. ...
A large body of criminological and psychological evidence finds that recidivistic criminals are not accidental, adjacent, or incidental criminals. They share characteristics including hyperaggression, poor self-control, bad decision-making skills, disdain for conventions such as employment and education, social and economic parasitism, entitled attitudes, and manipulative behavior.
They see nothing wrong or immoral with their impolite and dangerous behavior. As several qualitative studies of active offenders demonstrate, many report experiencing enjoyment at terrorizing, maiming, and killing others. Criminals have friends and family who are also criminals, normalizing these traits. [Reminiscent of the Biden clan! 😊]..."
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