Chapter 15 – Rehabilitation

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Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on rehabilitation, which has been the alternative goal of criminal justice intervention with offenders. The rehabilitative ideal dominated the correctional end of the formal justice system throughout most of the twentieth century. Wide arrays of rehabilitative practices have been introduced. The most common comment made about rehabilitation is “nothing works.” This view had stirred a lot of controversy since its declaration in the mid-1970s and forms a basis for this chapter. Despite the discouraging results, rehabilitation continues to be a major focus of system effort. The chapter examines the debate on the rehabilitation controversy, discusses the problems inherent in the research and debate, and considers a few promising rehabilitation approaches such as restorative justice and drug courts. Restorative justice includes a wide array of community members and groups in the interventions. Drug courts seek rehabilitation in a community setting. Th

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