Offender Rehabilitation Theory

Rehabilitating or reforming offender and changing them into law-abider, is the contents in the research of criminology, penology and other disciplines, and the common topic of all mankind, and also important social practice that carried out in many countries and regions of the world.Over a long period of time, people have been making a lot of efforts to rehabilitate offender, and have gained outstanding achievements in a few countries and regions. For example, since 1949, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has successfully reformed many of the Japanese war criminals who were headstrong, stubborn and arrogant. Furthermore, the prison system of PRC has also met with great success in the rehabilitation of other offenders, and has been keeping a low rate of recidivism. At the same time, people in the international community have been making much practice and theoretical exploration in the rehabilitation or correction of offenders.However, the theoretical research on the rehabilitation of offender is limited. From the information the present author has seen, there are few of systematical theories of offender rehabilitation that have solid foundations in evidence and theory, and have recognized widely.For the reason of facilitating the scientific level, improving the quality and promoting the theoretical study of offender rehabilitation of PRC, the present writer try to develop a new theory of offender rehabilitation.Logically, a complete theory of offender rehabilitation shall consist of a criminal etiology and a theory of offender rehabilitation. The criminal etiology can lay necessary foundation for the theoretical study of offender rehabilitation. So the criminal etiology is been approached firstly, and then such a criminal etiology will be applied to the research on the offender rehabilitation.According to such a train of thought, the existing findings and practice of offender rehabilitation are analyzed, and afterwards a new theory of crime causes and offender rehabilitation is put forward in the dissertation, which is the criminogenic difference...