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Predicaments in Prisoners’ Institutional Rehabilitation for Parole Release: Some Evidence from Malaysia
Author(s) -
HAMIN ZAITON,
OTHMAN MOHD BAHRIN,
ABU HASSAN RAFIZAH
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the howard journal of crime and justice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.462
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 2059-1101
pISSN - 2059-1098
DOI - 10.1111/hojo.12242
Subject(s) - prison , rehabilitation , psychology , criminology , qualitative research , political science , sociology , social science , neuroscience
Abstract Institutional rehabilitation is significant because the Parole Board's decision in releasing a prisoner would depend on the rehabilitation report. Such rehabilitation programmes and assessment have been implemented by rehabilitation officers with considerable challenges. This article reports the findings on such challenges in five local prisons in Malaysia. The primary data were obtained from qualitative interviews with prison rehabilitation officers, parole officers, prisoners, and Parole Board members. The findings reveal that these operational predicaments reconnected not only to the officers’ role, qualification, expertise, and professionalism but also to the policies and priorities of their respective prisons.