Should criminal justice focus more on rehabilitation?

Rehabilitation can take place in any of these phases as the police for example can impose on the spot penalties and cautions but these are not controversial it is in the last two of these many stages that there is debate over whether the criminal justice system should focus more on rehabilitation than on retribution. read more

By focusing more on rehabilitation than retribution, the criminal justice system will do more than just put away criminals. Rehabilitation makes it possible to identify the factors that could have led to them being deviants. Rehabilitation sees to it that the chances of them repeating the crime are minimised. read more

The criminal justice system should put more focus on rehabilitation than retribution. Time and time again, logic and statistics prove rehabilitation to be more effective than retribution. Take Norway, for example. They value rehabilitation very highly, have abolished the death penalty, and have stopped sentencing criminals to life in prison. read more