Rehabilitation allows for the criminal to get the help that he or she needs to hopefully one day be able to go back to society to be a contributing member. An example of rehabilitation would be if a citizen was taken to jail for drug use and possession and the judge ruled that the defendant will have to go to jail for a certain amount of time and following their incarceration attend a drug rehab. The model the United States uses for sentencing and corrections is called the justice model. The justice model is a “process of determining sentences according to fair and just sentencing policies. The model is based on retributive notions of deserved punishment; the sentence should fit the crime. Under the model, offenders would receive their just deserts— nothing more, nothing less”
Rehabilitation allows for the criminal to get the help that he or she needs to hopefully one day be able to go back to society to be a contributing member. An example of rehabilitation would be if a citizen was taken to jail for drug use and possession and the judge ruled that the defendant will have to go to jail for a certain amount of time and following their incarceration attend a drug rehab. The model the United States uses for sentencing and corrections is called the justice model. The justice model is a “process of determining sentences according to fair and just sentencing policies. The model is based on retributive notions of deserved punishment; the sentence should fit the crime. Under the model, offenders would receive their just deserts— nothing more, nothing less”