Rehabilitating Offenders: Case Study and Rehabilitation Programs

This essay discusses the rehabilitation of offenders with a case study of a sexual assault offender. It recommends three rehabilitation programs, including cognitive-behavioral therapy, sexual behavior clinic rehabilitation program, and employment rehabilitation program. The effectiveness of the programs is evaluated through surveys and self-reports.

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Introduction:
Rehabilitation of the offenders is essential as they help them in educating the offenders so
that they can lead their life typically (Craissati, 2018). The essay involves the case study of the
patient who has been imprisoned for the sexual assault offence. Peter is a 49-year-old man who
has been working as a scoutmaster. He has been arrested after getting several complaints from
the former scouts. Twelve former scouts who used to learn scouts from peter had claimed that
they had been sexual abuse and assaulted by peter during their practice session. Apart from being
a scout practitioner, he is also used to preach at church and is actively involved in the safety
house programs also. After completing two years sentence, he feels guilty for his offences and
wants to return to his previous life and want to continue with the activities related to church and
safety house program he used to do before. Though, he was feeling guilty regarding his offence
but has accepted that he has a specialized attachment with children, especially for boys.
Rehabilitation in case of such offenders is proved to be active and helped them in living their life
with respect and dignity.
Assessment:
Rehabilitation of the offenders are done to reduce the crime rates of the offenders who
are on the release from the custody or on the community sentences. They face coordinated as
well as the tough response from the community, probation and the police services. Offenders
who feel guilty for their offences and want to spend the rest of their life as ordinary people are
usually rehabilitated (Fortune, Ward & Mann, 2015). In the rehabilitation service, they get a
chance to learn new skills that help them to survive usually. In the rehabilitation of the offenders,
the specific needs of the individual, such as the criminogenic needs should be considered
(Cullen & JL-LEVRANT, 2017). The essay focusses primarily on the behavioural problems of

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the individual and also aims to address the criminogenic needs of the offenders. Apart from this,
the factor which is related to the onset of the offending behaviour of the individual and
maintenance of that behaviour.
Conceptualization:
In the case study, the behaviour of the peter identified in the case study can be
conceptualised by using the different theoretical models. As from the case study, it is evident that
peter has been exposed to sexual assault at a very young age. His uncle used to abuse him
sexually, and he knows how it feels to be abused or assaulted by someone sexually. When Peter
has been arrested, he seems to be guilty of the crime has been committed, but has accepted the
fact that he has a special place in his heart for boys.
Social learning theory is the theory that defines socialization and its impact on the
development of the individual. According to the social learning theory, the identity of the person
is formed in response to the external stimuli, which includes social incentives (Akers, 2017).
Peter was also sexually molested by his relative in his childhood, which created a negative
impact on his development. Due to this, after spending some time in prison, he realised his
mistake and was guilty of that. He had also tried several times to kill himself due to his awful
sin. He also stated that he has a particular affinity for the children, especially for the boys and
because of that, he was very guilty about the crime.
By observing the behaviour of the peter, it is noted that peter is feeling guilty for his
shameful sin. Before the criminogenic event, he works as a respectful person of the community
and now again want to return to his standard. Though he was aware of his crime, there is specific
behaviour observed in peter which needs treatment.

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Treatment/rehabilitation program:
Rehabilitation is the therapy that is used to provide support to the individual suffering
from any illness or any depression to make them capable enough to gain employment.
Rehabilitation in the case of offenders is done for the individual who are convicted to prison due
to any criminal offence (Fortune, Ward & Mann, 2017). Those individuals experience
complication in gaining employment after completing the sentence period. Hence to do that,
rehabilitation programs are necessary that make them capable enough to gain employment
quickly (Howard, 2017).
Before getting into prison, peter used to work as a scoutmaster. Apart from these, he also
works as a preacher in the local church and is also actively involved in the community program
named as safety house program. After talking with peter, it has been observed that he desperately
wants to return to his previous life and to engage himself in the church work. Based on his
behaviour, a sexual behaviour clinic rehabilitation program is recommended to him.
Before providing the chance to an offender to re-enter into the society, it is necessary to
change the thought process that makes them more comfortable to adapt themselves to the
thinking perspective of the community. Cognitive behavioural therapy is one of the most
common treatments that have been used in rehabilitating an offender. It assists the criminals to
discover and modify the thinking perspective, which was responsible for the maladaptive
behaviours (Hollin, 2019). It emphasises the personal accountability of the offenders and also
aids the offenders to understand the choices and the thoughts which led to the crime and to
overcome from such behaviour different, they are educated with the thought process and

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alternative expression either individually or among the group (Mak & Chan, 2018). The
beneficial outcome of the therapy which is expected is the reduced rate of crime along with the
reduced rate of recidivism.
Rehabilitation of the offenders continues throughout an individual’s life even after the
offender has left the system. Peter want to re-enter society and wants to keep his church work
similar as before. Based on his offence he has recommended to join sexual baehvior clinic
program, where the sexual offenders are educated with the strategy to manage the behaviour of
the individual (Fairweather et al., 2017).
According to Department for Correctional Services, (2019) adjusting to life after
custody, consist of many variables. In the sexual behaviour clinic rehabilitation program, the
offender has been provided with different traetments such as, intimacy and the relationship,
emotional maanegment, subsatnce use, legal or illegal sexual beahviour and its consequneces.
That support system aids the offender to survive in the city after completing the sentence period.
This program is conducted for arounf five months and is monitored by the case mangers,
which is considered as one of the most crucial steps in the re-entry of the offenders into the
society and also aids to eliminate recidivism (Department for Correctional Services, 2019). The
sexual behaviour clinic rehabilitation program is formualted according to the needs and
preferenaces of the prisoner.
Apart from another program that is recommended in the case of peter is the employment
rehabilitation program. Peter previously used to work as a scoutmaster, but after he has been
sentenced to jail, he lost his work. Hence, to make him financially independent, employment
rehabilitation program has been recommended.

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According to the Manikandan and Latha, (2016), the inability of an offender to maintain
or find the work is considered as one of the main factors for the increased recidivism. When an
offender enters the society without getting involved in a rehabilitation program, an adverse effect
has been observed termed as a domino effect, which if not controlled, can lead to an increased
rate of offences. Therefore, for the offender to become one of the productive members of the
society, they must gain employment, it will also provide them with the opportunity to help their
family financially. This program will provide the offender with a sense of fulfilment and self-
esteem by providing them with a job and assists them in re-entering society.
Measuring outcomes:
After spending time in prison, the mindset of the prisoner becomes different from that of
the other individual. To make them comfortable with the society, again, a rehabilitation program
is recommended for them.
It is believed that the rehabilitation program is crucial before re-entering into society.
Rehabilitation program assists them in gaining employment and provide them with a sense of
fulfilment and self-respect, which help them to survive in the nation again with the same respect.
The primary role of the rehabilitation programs is to provide them with enough ability so
that again, they will be able to gain recognition into the society and also aims to reduce the rate
of recidivism (Formon, Schmidt & Henderson, 2018).
With the help of the rehabilitation program, the aggressive and criminal behaviour of the
offender has been addressed. Cognitive behavioural therapy is expected to reduce the aggression
and the offending thought of the individual that leads to their criminal behaviour (Gilbert,

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Daffern & Anderson, 2017). The primary objective of the cognitive behavioural therapy is to
change the thinking perspective of the individual and the expectation by applying the cognitive
behavioural therapy is the reduced rate of crime and recidivism as well as a modified thought
process. In the case of peter, the thought process regarding the sexual offence needs to be altered
to avoid any such incidence in future.
Sexual behaviour clinic rehabilitation program, is also recommended in the case of peter
as he was arrested for the sexual offence. The objective of the Sexual behaviour clinic
rehabilitation program is to make the offender capable enough so that they can survive
respectfully in society. They assist the offenders to change their though process or the factirs that
is responsible for such offence (Department for Correctional Services, 2019).
Apart from these two, the other rehabilitation program which was recommended in the
case of peter is the employment rehabilitation program. Employment rehabilitation program
helps the criminals to be ready for the job. The objective of this program is to make the
offenders, and they're financially stable (Lea, & Abrams, 2016). It also helps to reduce the rate of
crime and recidivism. If the offenders are not rehabilitated with such programs, chances of again
getting involved in the criminal activity increases.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the rehabilitation program, a survey among the offenders
is conducted. The questionnaire contains a different question that is used to assess the modified
behaviour of the offender. Besides, the self-report is also generated both before and after the
treatment. The efficiency of the program is based on the response that has been received from
the offender (Kirkpatrick et al., 2018). Here, in this case, peter is surveyed about the change he
has noticed in himself after attending the rehabilitation program.

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Evaluation:
Cognitive-behavioural therapy is used to change the thought process of the offenders.
According to Helmond et al., (2015), Cognitive behavioural therapy is observed to reduce
recidivism and crime among youth and adult offenders. This therapy also helps in reducing
recidivism among the offenders who are sentenced for the sexual offence.
Employment rehabilitation program helps in reducing the rate of crime among the
offenders, especially those involved in the sexual offences. It helps them to get a job and support
their family financially and is expected to increase the sense of fulfilment, confidence and self-
respect (Zheng et al., 2017).
Sexual behaviour clinic rehabilitation program aims to change the beahviour of the
offenders, so that they can survive after getting out from the prison (Department for Correctional
Services, 2019).
Conclusion:
From the above discussion, it is concluded that the rehabilitation program helps to change
the thinking perspective of the offenders and makes them capable enough to gain employment
and survive a respectful life. Peter, who has been arrested for his sexual offence, wants to return
to his previous life. By the help of the socio-learning theory has described the behaviour of peter.
After observing the behaviour of peter, three rehabilitation program has been recommended,
sexual behaviour clinic rehabilitation program, Employment rehabilitation program and the
Cognitive behavioural therapy, which is expected to reduce the rate of the recidivism and crime.
The effectiveness of the programs is evaluated with the help of the survey and pre/post-treatment
self-report.

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