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Crime and Rehabilitation

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The concepts of crime and punishment have been well versed and discussed for generations. In civilized society, the purpose of implementing penal sentences for criminal acts is to rehabilitate the offender, educating them through various programs that aim to modify their behavioral trends. This is opposed to the primal and less evolved attitudes towards prison, which focus solely on punishing the perpetrators of crime and attempting to deter them through the severity of consequence.
It is widely accepted that the former is the most conducive towards reducing crime over a period of time, as well as creating the best environment to change attitudes rather than hardening a prevalent criminal ethos. However, this methodology of attempting to correct behavior rather than punish it is vulnerable to several criticisms, most notably that it is open to abuse from career criminals who observe captivity as an occupational hazard and one that can be endured for financial reward.
Serving Time and RehabilitationOpposed to this, there is also criticism from those who deem aspects of criminal law to restrictive in a democratic environment. This observation applies to legislation that continues to restricts the movements and activity of individuals after they have been released from their sentence, and therefore regulates behaviour for far longer than their original punishment. While this may be necessary for specific and compulsive natures of crime, it is not entirely appropriate or ethical for others.

An example of this can be seen in the case of former gang leader and gambling baron Robin Chee. He was sentenced for various drugs and affiliated offences in 1995, and served an 8 year sentence before being released in 2003. Upon leaving prison, the State Casino Control Commission of Atlanta imposed an indefinite ban on him frequenting casino sites because of his past associations with organized crime. This imposition endured until the start of 2011, where despite maintaining his status has a law abiding citizen in the intervening years, he continued to be penalized for previous and punished deeds.

As this ban was lifted this week, Robin Chee was finally granted the full reprieve he felt he had been denied since his release. The nature of this ban may have been only a slight infringement upon his human rights, but is was one that some would argue was unnecessary given that he had served the terms of his sentence and been released by federal bodies. This argument is supported by the concepts of democracy and justice, which would indicate that as a sentence is set in proportion to the crime, then once this is served any social debt is fully repaid.

The Reasons for Extended Punishment and RegulationThis is an interesting area of crime and punishment, as it is at odds with the ideals of democratic justice systems. The problem is that this type of regulation for perpetrators who commit certain types of violent or compulsive, but perhaps less so in instances where criminals were motivated by financial gain rather than primal urges. Although western cultures generally wish to treat all criminals and victims as equally as possible, this is often not possible due to the diverse nature of criminal behavior and its their causes.

So while it is entirely understandable that a perpetrator of sexual offences would be registered on a database and monitored in terms of their movements and activity, it is less so to apply a similar sanction on a criminal who committed acts due to economic motives. The reason for this is simple. A sexual offender is driven to these types of crime by compulsion and urge, which makes them most likely to re-offend and the hardest criminal type to rehabilitate. In contrast an organized criminal acts out of planning and greed, and while this does not absolve their crimes, it does make them more susceptible to rehabilitation.

Taking this into consideration, it would seem a little excessive that a ban on gambling and other activities should be implimented once a sentence is served. Gambling, for example, is not a criminal activity in itself (in some US states), and therefore often acts as an incidental aspect of a perpetrators criminal activity. As a past time that is legal in its own right and also not a compulsive or emotive aspect of criminology, it should be a permitted act once an individual has been released from their debt to society.

Addressing the Law to Specific Crimes
 Perhaps banning gambling amongst individuals who have been jailed for affiliated offences is borne of a desire to treat all criminals with as much equality as possible. If this is the case it is misguided, as variable crimes and their offenders have to be dealt with differently in order to account for the nature of the transgression. This is perhaps the most relevant area of law that needs addressing, in order that it may be tailored and adapted to best reflect the huge diversity in the genres of crime and their many potential triggers. After all, banning an individual from gambling just because it has a vague connotation to their past misdemeanors is not beneficial to society, especially once a designated sentence has already been served.

 

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