rehabilitation programs

Structured recovery efforts

Rehabilitation programs are structured efforts designed to help people recover function, skills, or social standing after illness, injury, addiction, or incarceration.

Medical rehabilitation programs focus on restoring physical or cognitive abilities after events like strokes or accidents.

In criminal justice, rehabilitation programs aim to reduce reoffending through education, job training, or therapy.

Addiction rehabilitation programs—often called rehab—help people overcome dependence on drugs or alcohol.

The court ordered him to complete a rehabilitation program before sentencing.

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correctional philosophy

rehabilitation programsretributive justice

Punishment proportional to offense

punishment · retribution · vengeance · mandatory minimums · chain gangs

intervention approach

rehabilitation programssolitary confinement

Isolated imprisonment in cell

hard labor · corporal punishment · neglect · abandonment · doing nothing

social response to deviance

rehabilitation programsbanishment

Forced removal from place

exile · lifetime bans · social ostracism · branding · public shaming

Family

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