I need help on my argumentative paper. I'm a college student. I'm arguing that prisoners should be rehabliltated, but I need the other's point of veiw.
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2006-11-28 13:36:04 · 10 answers · asked by puddin8742 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
You can not force anyone to do something they don't want to do. I don't trust rehabilitation at all. Think about it, if a sex offender says he's rehabilitated are you going to test that with YOUR kid? How else are you going to confirm he's different? Some other child will have to be life altered before you realize this pervert needs to go back to the drawing board..again. He's ok as long as he's not around children, how's that rehabilitation? You can't rehabilitate a lion not to eat a lamb, same thing in my opinion. You can train a lion but instinct will win every time. Try reading up on some killers like Albert Fish on crimelibrary.com then see if you feel like you would like that guy to be "rehabilitated" and living next door to you and your family. Good luck.
2006-11-28 13:51:36 · answer #1 · answered by BrutalBaby 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Hm, that's rather simple mind you I'm also going to give you a another slice of the pie below.
Prisoners should be rehabilitated to ease the massive crowding that we already have that's taking it's toll on the American people in regards to taxes, by easing the strain we have the ability to take the time to develop new ways to rehabilitate as well as give them structure to thier lives outside of the institution. However heres the part you'll likely not use... but that's the only reason I can see to get them in and out... Because in the end most of them end up going back to the only thing they know...
Okay, there are multiple reasons why this shouldn't happen. It has very little to do with government funding anymore as most facilities are actually state funded anymore due to or current stance with institutions.
Sometimes when the 'rebilitiation' has occured very often it's not authentic, they don't want to leave. So they get sent out into a society that immediately labels and stigmatizes them. We don't have the necessary programs in place that at least helps the ex criminals stand a fighting chance in the job world. Without the necessary incentives they end up thinking that the world is against them and commit a crime(s) in order to go back to the three meals a day and bed to sleep in.
If perhaps that we wouldn't stigmatize and label so often, perhaps maybe then I would be slightly towards the rehabilitation of those that are in prison.
2006-11-28 13:57:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree that we should try to rehabilitate, but a lot of people commit crimes because they lack moral values. Therefor will commit the same or similar crimes over and over again. The other side will probably argue that it's too big of a risk to allow convicted felons to live "normal" lives and should not be allowed out of jail. Think about different types of criminals and the arugments the other side will have to show that they don't deserve to be rehabilitated. For example, child molestors, murderers, rapists etc...... That will likely be their most important argument. Show examples(if there are any) of people that commit these crimes and have been rehabilitated. Good luck.
2006-11-28 13:48:16 · answer #3 · answered by g b 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Prison is a punishment. It is not a place to go get help. If you give a care for yourself at all, you can go get some help after you get out. Prison should not be set up to be some kind of last ditch rehab facility. It's punishment, not day camp. (Truthfully I believe that some level of rehabilitaion is necessary, but not as much as is sometimes implemented since people choose to go to prison by choosing to commit the crime. But, there at least is an argument for your paper, well thought out or not ;) )
2006-11-28 13:48:28 · answer #4 · answered by J 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because laws were not made to rehabilitate, they were made to punish..period. And what is rehabilitation? When cops look at a crime they put it in a triangle. One side of the triangle is desire, one side is ability and the other side is opportunity. You and I cannot change someone's desire or ability to commit a crime - that is up to the individual to decide. We can stop the opportunity to commit that crime. One way is to keep someone incarcerated so that they cannot commit a crime or take away any other opportunity for that individual to commit a crime. People who are "rehabilitated" (and there are those who do) did so themselves. They worked HARD to achieve that goal and they made a pact with themselves and God NOT to commit other crimes. A person who does not want to change, won't and they deserve to be behind bars to protect others who live by the law.
2006-11-28 13:42:26 · answer #5 · answered by foxfire 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How?
I am not being flippant, or sarcastic. I agree that the best solution would be to rehab criminals, but really, how would we do that?
No one has figured out how to rehabilitate criminals with a good success rate without the cost exceeding the cost of a Harvard College education. Which is paid for by we taxpayers.
So your kid, or my kid can't go to Harvard because we cannot afford the tuition, while you and I (never had a single member of my family in jail) foot a really big bill for the criminal's rehab.
How to solve that one?
2006-11-28 13:44:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Murderers are an excellent example. If you take the life of another human, they never get the chance to become a better person. They can never kiss their wife, husband, mother, father, children goodbye. That murderer needs to realize that he took the life of a person and hence his life is taken from him. Rapists are about the same concept. They care only for themselves and their sick desires. They didn't care for their victims, so we shouldn't care for them. The victim can never be fully rehabilitated and neither can the perpetrater.
2006-11-28 13:46:38 · answer #7 · answered by generalgrievous16 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
this sounds like a baited left wing question. people and situations are different at all times and there can be no straight-up answer to a question with no flexibility. i'm sure if you examine 100 cases, about 50 will be "unrehabilitatable". shrinks will tell you pedophiles are almost 100% likely to commit another crime.
2006-11-28 14:00:12 · answer #8 · answered by daddio 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is hard to know if rehabilitation works - in some cases I don't believe it does such as serial killers or child molesters.
I found you some links for information .........sorry I couldn't do more.
2006-11-28 13:51:43 · answer #9 · answered by Akkita 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
so when or if they get out they have a skill and can work or do somthing that isent a crime to live
2006-11-28 13:43:55 · answer #10 · answered by johnny 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋