Prisoner Reintegration Challenges of Assimilation and Crime Desistance
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 01, 2012
ANNOTATION: “This paper illuminates and offers recommendations from a symbolic interactionist’s perspective to the challenges associated with assimilation and crime desistance. Symbolic interactionists perceive offenders to be pragmatic actors who continuously adjust their behaviors and actions to the response and reaction of others … genuine rehabilitation must begin with the prisoners’ willingness and motivation to undergo a process of self-transformation” (p. 49). Yet, offenders face environmental factors that combine to make their reentry extremely difficult and create an atmosphere of resignation if not outright unwillingness to change. The author suggests that recidivism will be decreased if there is access to outcomes-based therapeutic programming before and after incarceration.
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