Objectives
Objectives:
At the end of the programme, participants are expected to achieve the following objectives:
- Appreciate the rationale for punishment and the historical use of imprisonment as a penal strategy;
- Understanding the home-prison nexus and alternative experimentation with penal strategies against the backdrop of the ‘what works’ question;
- Appreciate the principles that inform the organization of imprisonment and the penal institution;
- Application of the principle of ‘normalisation’ with targetted population;
- Understanding prisons as a total institution and its impact on the construction and management of a prison identity;
- Appreciate the value of considering alternatives to punishment for clients at risk;
- Review of some of the latest and key research works in the fields of offender rehabilitation and reintegration;
- Develop Rehabiliation programmes rather than Institutionalisating their clients;
- Identify and design appropriate programme specific to the profile of the offenders;
- Take greater emphasis on evaluating rehabilitation and reintegration work;
- Create a stronger aftercare programme.