Offender Programs

This site contains recent articles on various aspects of offender programs.

Offender Programs in General

There has been a reemerging interest on the usefulness and value of offender programs particularly juvenile offender programs. These programs are chiefly devised for the young who have committed illegal acts and felonies. Most juvenile offender programs have goals directed towards holding the young accountable for acts that are against the law, making sure that society is safe from these young offenders and reducing the chances of….

Offender Rehabilitation Programs

The truth is most offender rehabilitation programs don’t work. Even those that claim evidence-based are not effective in challenging and changing criminal self-defeating thoughts and behaviors. If you never change criminal thinking, you will never change criminal behavior. Criminal thoughts turn into criminal feelings and emotions which results in criminal attitudes and behaviors which dictates the consequences of a criminal’s life. Most offender rehabilitation programs are not equipped to….

Juvenile Offender Programs

To have any chance to rehabilitate or habilitate juvenile offenders, the procedure is the same for adults, one has to be able to intervene into faulty thinking errors and self-defeating behaviors. If you never change criminal thinking, you’ll never change criminal thinking. The only proven and effective science to do this is cognitive restructuring. Juvenile offender programs that incorporate cognitive behavioral therapies have….