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Prison Reformation - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Focus on crimogenic needs & reducing reoffending
      - Associated with positive short (coherence, impulsiveness, venturesomeness, attitudes towards the law, courts and police, tolerance of law violation and criminal identification) & long term results
      - More research needed on assessing cognitive & social skill acquisition as well as motivation to change
      - 77% completion rate in 372 male prisoners
      - 25% lower risk of reconviction up to 36 months following prison release
  - - - 'Get tough' policy especially used in USA
      - Various western countries have academic teachers to provide educational systems to prisoners
        
        Can have vocational training programmes to improve prisoner's work skills for more profit (prisoner's wages & prison revenue) and skills for when they are released back into the community
    - - Psychological programmes provided
      - General philosophy in China is the majority of people can be changed
      - Much larger capacity with more than 1,000 inmates per prison
      - Prisons lack qualified teachers
        
        Sometimes leads to prisoners with qualifications being the teachers themselves
- - - - overcrowding and various forms of violence
      - violence, enforced solitude or conversely, lack of privacy, lack of meaningful activity,
      - isolation from social networks, insecurity about future prospect.