Prevention of Reoffending

ISBN 10: 1780682271 / ISBN 13: 9781780682273

Editore: Intersentia Ltd, 2014

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• Titolo: Prevention of Reoffending
• Editore: Intersentia Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1780682271
• ISBN 13: 9781780682273
• Rilegatura: HRD
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 752 grammi

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The need to prevent convicted prisoners and other offenders from reoffending constitutes a major challenge for both criminal justice and penitentiary systems. Reoffending rates are considerable (in many instances they are even high) while the issue is tremendously complicated. Rehabilitation - sometimes described as resocialization, reintegration, or treatment - is an important tool for the prevention of reoffending, but has clearly become less self-evident in many jurisdictions in recent decades. This volume focuses on the value of restoring offenders to a useful life, from the perspectives of prisoners, their family, society, the tax-payer, prison staff and administration, and victims, as well as from a criminological viewpoint. Notwithstanding these actual values of rehabilitation measures, their application alone may not be sufficient to prevent someone from reoffending. This particularly applies to high risk offenders, i.e. those who pose a substantial risk of further serious offending, such as sex offenders, terrorists, and members of organized criminal groups. The book considers measures to deal with high risk offenders during and after their sentence, and the arguments for and against their use. Prevention of Reoffending contains 14 essays written in English language text and 10 essays written in French. The English contributions include: Obligations and Means to Prevent Reoffending: Introduction, Context, and Conclusions * The Value of Rehabilitation to Prisoners * The Value of Rehabilitation to the Prisoner's Family * The Value of Rehabilitation to Society * The Value of Rehabilitation to the Tax-payer * The Value of Rehabilitation to the Prison Administration * The Justification for Taking Measures to Predict Offending/Reoffending and to Manage Risk * The Justification for Taking Measures to Predict Offending/Reoffending and Manage Risk: A Theoretical Perspective. The View of a Human Rights Lawyer * The Relevance of the Risk of Reoffending in Determining the Type and the Length of Sentences: A Comparative Criminal Law Perspective * The "Other" Death Penalty: Life in Prison * Managing the Risk Posed by Offenders after the Expiry of Sentence: The British Experience * Community Measures to Deal with High Risk Offenders at the Periphery of the Justice System * Dealing with High Risk Offenders: General Synthesis and Conclusions * The International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation: History and Purpose (Series: International Penal and Penitentiary Foundation - Vol. 45)

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The need to prevent convicted prisoners and other offenders from reoffending constitutes a major challenge for both criminal justice and penitentiary systems. Reoffending rates are considerable – in many instances they are even high – while the issue is tremendously complicated. Rehabilitation (sometimes described as resocialisation, reintegration or treatment) is an important tool to prevent reoffending, but has clearly become less self-evident in many jurisdictions in recent decades. This volume therefore first of all focuses on the value of restoring offenders to a useful life from the perspective of prisoners, their family, society, the tax-payer, prison staff and administration and victims, as well as from a criminological viewpoint. Notwithstanding these actual values of rehabilitation measures, their application alone may not be sufficient to prevent someone from reoffending. This particularly applies to high risk offenders, i.e. those who pose a substantial risk of further serious offending, such as sex offenders, terrorists, and members of organized criminal groups. This volume therefore also considers measures to deal with high risk offenders during and after their sentence, and the arguments for and against their use.

La nécessité d’empêcher les détenus condamnés et autres délinquants de repasser à l’acte est le défi de taille que la justice criminelle et les systèmes pénitentiaires se doivent de relever.Les taux de récidive sont considérables (il n’est pas rare qu’ils soient même élevés) et le problème est extrêmement complexe. La réhabilitation (parfois décrite comme resocialisation, réinsertion ou encore traitement) est un outil important pour prévenir la récidive, bien qu’au cours des dernières décennies, son importance se soit clairement amoindrie dans bon nombre de juridictions. Aussi, le présent ouvrage se concentrera avant tout sur la valeur de la réintégration des délinquants dans une vie utile, tant du point de vue des détenus, de leur famille, de la société, du contribuable, du personnel et de l’administration pénitentiaires et des victimes, que d’un point de vue criminologique. Bien que la valeur des mesures de réinsertion soit bien réelle, leur seule application peut s’avérer insuffisante pour prévenir la récidive. C’est particulièrement vrai dans le cas des délinquants à haut risque, c’est-à-dire ceux qui présentent un risque important de nouveau délit grave, tels que les délinquants sexuels, les terroristes et les membres de groupes criminels organisés. Cet ouvrage abordera dès lors les mesures permettant de traiter les délinquants à haut risque durant l’exécution de leur peine et au terme de celle-ci, ainsi que les arguments favorables et défavorables à leur utilisation.