Incarceration for Reformation or Deformation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12970329 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sadiq Ewaoda Amali (0009-0001-3724-6739, Federal University Dutse, corresponding author), Ephraim Kevin Sibanyoni (0000-0001-9168-4396, University of Zululand), T Tshivhase (0000-0001-9673-8525, University of Fort Hare) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Pages | 562-571 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Criminology and Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1929-4409 • E-ISSN: 1929-4409 |
| Publisher | Lifescience Global (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.6000/1929-4409.2021.10.65 |
| OpenAlex | W3171131001 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
The reason for imposing incarceration is to punish offenders for violating societal norms and values. As a means of punishment, it is deliberately inflicted on an offender, which serves as a deterrence to would-be offenders. This could help in inculcating good morals on offenders, thereby altering him or her from a nonconforming individual to a conforming one. Despite the good intention of imposing incarceration, it has contradicted its cardinal objective which has resulted in some unintended consequences such as inability to secure employment as a result of stigmatization, aiding the collapse of marriages among others. With the above-stated consequences of incarceration, penal institutions instead of instilling the positive goal of incarceration on inmates, on the contrary, it has served as a punishment ground with degrading treatment imposed on inmates by correctional officials coupled with the dehumanizing state of most penal institutions. This article concludes that incarceration has a long term effect on the positive life of offenders and recommends that concerted efforts should be made in reintegrating ex-offenders, discouraging the idea of tagging, and make ample efforts on how ex-offenders can secure payable jobs upon regaining freedom
Conviction · Criminology · Dehumanization · Deterrence (psychology · Political science · Punishment (psychology · Sociology · Unintended consequences · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |