Elizabeth Mayfield Mrs.

Frailly HUM-220-2W1 10 February 2014 Formal Proposal Rehabilitation is the restoration of someone to a useful place in society. I am proposing that a habitual offender cannot be put back into society, and be expected to be able to not commit another crime. I plan to us two different theories to show how rehabilitation does not work. Some people cannot change, which makes it harder for them to have a useful place in society. Some problems in existing literature are that it only talks about male inmates. I would like to know about females and juveniles. I think it is necessary to know about both sexes and the children. People do not just want to know about the males; they want to know about everyone in the prison system. One issue this study will raise is if the inmate can make it in the real world after being incarcerated for a period of time. Another issue that will be raised is if the inmate will commit another crime while out of prison. The last issue this study will raise is if the inmate will be able to get and keep a job in society. There are questions that I have about this study. Will the inmate commit another crime when they get out of prison? I believe that some of the inmates will commit another crime when they are released from prison. The people that are incarcerated for a long period of time will not know how to live outside of prison, so they will commit another crime to go back to prison. Are they able to be rehabilitated? I believe some of the inmates can be rehabilitated. I think this

because some people think about what they did in prison and come out a completely different person. Will society judge them because they been in prison? Society is guaranteed to judge the inmate that has been released from prison. They will only judge the inmate because of his/her record. I mentioned two theories that I will be using in this study. Labeling theory is when the individual becomes what he/she is labeled or what others are expecting him/her to become. Classical theory determines that people think before they continue with criminal actions. When one commits a crime, it is because the individual decided that it was advantageous to commit the crime. The significance of this study is to show that society does not accept people who have been incarcerated at all. It is also important to study to see if the people in prison can be rehabilitated. Can they be saved? This study will affect future research because more and more people are going to prison. People need to know if the inmates can have a change of heart and m=not want to commit crimes again.

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