Rehabilitative model
In the 21st century, there are many crimes, which make the criminal justice system and other stakeholders implement various ways of tackling crime and punishing the wrong doors. Arguably, to rehabilitate means to reinstate to positive life, through psychoanalysis and instruction or to bring back to a better state, operation, or aptitude. The postulation of rehabilitation is that no one is permanently criminal. Moreover, it is based on the postulation that it is indeed possible to reinstate a constant offender to a constructive life. The main aim of rehabilitation is to bring criminals back to a meaningful life where they add value to themselves as well as to the community (Sharma, 1998). Another objective of psychoanalysis is to avert law-breaking habits, also referred to as criminal recidivism. Psychoanalysis is also known as psychotherapy or rehabilitation. As a matter of fact, rehabilitation makes an individual be a productive and good members of the society.
The custodial model
In this model of prison, the fundamental doctrine of operation is protected detention of convicts and sentence for their immoral doings. Besides safeguarding of the community, the underlying principle of imprisonment is to create a life so distasteful that criminals will, once released, not be ready or willing to involve themselves in fresh offenses (Cornwell, 2007). This model aims at inflicting so much pain on the law breakers as a way of deterring them from repeating the crimes that had them jailed and putting an end to their criminal behavior and evil ways.
Differences between the rehabilitative and custodial models
Reformatory investigators split the prisons into two: the old-fashioned, revengeful, cruel, custodial jails and the contemporary liberal, rehabilitative foundations of the current times (Blue and Naden, 2001). . The distinction between these descriptions of what a prison is supposed to be is that: Whereas the custodial model uses the word “prison”, the rehabilitative model uses the word “correctional facility”. As the custodial system sticks to the name “guard” in referring to prison officers, the civilized rehabilitative system refers to them as “correctional officers”. In the archaic custodial model, criminals are referred to as convicts or prisoners, whereas the rehabilitative model refers to them as inmates. Solitary confinement in the custodial model is referred to as the adjustment center.
Similarities between the two models
Much as the two models are far apart as far as the methods of correcting the inmates are concerned, the similarity between them is that they both deal with lawbreakers who have been brought to book by the state. They, however different, are both part of the criminal justice system. Despite their differences, the two models aim at converting criminals to good citizens and productive members of the society. (Sharma, 1998). The main aim of both rehabilitation model and the custodial model is that at the end of the day, the inmates will come out not willing to take part in criminal activities.
Conclusion and recommendation
In my opinion, the rehabilitative model is better compared to the archaic custodial model because, as opposed to punishing the mischief out of an offender, rehabilitation seeks, through training or psychotherapy, to convert a criminal into being a person with a mind-set that would be useful to society. (Sharma, 1998). This presumption of retribution is derived from the reasoning that penalty is imposed on a criminal with the aim of reforming them, or rehabilitating them so that re-integrating them into society can be simpler.
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Cornwell. D. (2007). Doing Justice Better: The Politics of Restorative Justice. Winchester:
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