NCJ Number
82536
Journal
Journal of Offender Counseling Services and Rehabilitation Volume: 5 Issue: 3 and 4 Dated: (Spring/Summer 1981) Pages: 39-51
Date Published
1982
Length
13 pages
Annotation
Nine male and two female ex-inmates of a co-correctional federal facility, repeat offenders who had been successfully functioning in the community for a postrelease period of 2 years or more, agreed to be interviewed on videotape.
Abstract
Of interest to the researchers were: (1) their views on how being placed in the minumum-security, co-correctional environment after serving time in more security-oriented settings enhanced or hindered their adjustment in the institution; (2) to what treatment-oriented programs in the institution they attributed rehabilitative qualities; and (3) their views on postrelease adjustment and re-entry into society after serving time in the minumum-security facility. The various comments and analyses provided in retrospect by these ex-offenders prove thought-provoking in view of such fundamental issues as the custody vs. treatment controversy, the 'rehabilitation' model of penology, and the impact of a treatment-oriented approach to adult corrections. (Author abstract)