Reintegrating seriously violent and personality-disordered offenders from a supermaximum security institution into the general offender population
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A transitional strategy to facilitate reintegration of offenders by way of maximum-security step down treatment oriented facility within which both their security requirements and treatments need could be adequately met is proposed. The results report that more than 80% of the offenders were reintegrated into a lower security facility without relapsing and being returned to the supermaximum institutions within a follow-up period of 20 months.
Publication Name: International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0306-624X
Year: 2005
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Criminals by choice
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Criminal behavior should be explained as a matter of individual choice. Society credits its most successful members for exercising free choice in achieving their accomplishments. The same standard should be applied to criminals. Explaining crime as a condition of social inadequacies such as poverty makes criminals victims rather than victimizers. It also discredits the many people who suffered the same deprivations but did not turn to crime.
Publication Name: International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0306-624X
Year: 1999
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Associate editor's editorial: laziness, criminality, and schizophrenia
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This article discusses the mental health of criminals and likens cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia with laziness. Topics include criminality, psychopathology, and mental illness.
Publication Name: International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0306-624X
Year: 2000
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