Rnr Model Of Rehabilitation

The Relevance of Reentry According to Cullen (2013) each year more than 700,000 offenders are released from prison. Furthermore, the majority of these offenders have not received any type of treatment services while incarcerated. Although, a small portion of offenders have received treatment, many of the offenders that have completed treatment are not given many reentry opportunities Cullen (2013). With the proven success that the RNR model has shown in the rehabilitation of offenders it is important to note that a neglected are of rehabilitation is the reentry of a offender back into the community (Cullen, 2013).Thus, it is important that effective reentry programs be designed and implemented in order to sustain the reduction in recidivism

It is important to note that America’s initial prisons were known as penitentiaries, a place designed for offenders to serve their penitence for their crimes so that they could be forgiven. Furthermore, throughout the progressive era American correctional policy widely held the belief that rehabilitation was the primary goal of incarcerating offenders (Jonson et al., 2013). In fact, much of the same ideologies that were developed in the progressive era are very similar to the modern rehabilitation ideologies of the current correctional system. According to Jonson et al. (2013) as of the year 2003 72% of the public that were surveyed believed that the criminal justice system should try to rehabilitate offenders, and not just incarcerate them. According to Cullen, Vose, Jonson and Unnever (2007) research suggests that the American public strongly supports early intervention programs, and the rehabilitation of juvenile

The United States went through a lot of failed attempts at reducing crime, that resulted in polices that led to the prison population increasing to an all-time high of 2.4 million people in the United States incarcerated (Cullen & Jonson, 2012). Over the last few decades research devoted to the effectiveness of rehabilitation has led to a growth in scientific knowledge that has allowed researchers to further understand “ what works” in changing offender behavior ( Cullen & Jonson, 2012). The rehabilitation approach has empirically been proven to produce better outcome for offender recidivism than the other approaches. Thus, providing reasoning to why the correctional and criminal justice system must commit to a rehabilitation approach (Cullen, et al.,