Rehabilitation works dramatically on a few people. I don't think there's any way to deny that some young men really undergo a dramatic change and are "scared straight". E.g. Merle Haggard.
What can probably be said is that for the criminal majority, rehabilitation really only works by aging teens and young men into the maturity of middle…
Rehabilitation works dramatically on a few people. I don't think there's any way to deny that some young men really undergo a dramatic change and are "scared straight". E.g. Merle Haggard.
What can probably be said is that for the criminal majority, rehabilitation really only works by aging teens and young men into the maturity of middle age. Even in middle age, some of these will remain criminals, but they'll be engaged in less egregious and violent crime than before.
And then there's a minority that is psychopathic/sociopathic and completely incorrigible. E.g. John Wayne Gacy, who only seems to have gotten worse as his life progressed into middle age.
Rehabilitation works dramatically on a few people. I don't think there's any way to deny that some young men really undergo a dramatic change and are "scared straight". E.g. Merle Haggard.
What can probably be said is that for the criminal majority, rehabilitation really only works by aging teens and young men into the maturity of middle age. Even in middle age, some of these will remain criminals, but they'll be engaged in less egregious and violent crime than before.
And then there's a minority that is psychopathic/sociopathic and completely incorrigible. E.g. John Wayne Gacy, who only seems to have gotten worse as his life progressed into middle age.