The Role of Rehabilitation in Crime Prevention

Criminal conviction based on the labeling theory has many negative consequences on the life of the convicts, their families, and the community, admission of the criminality identity, internal conflict, deprivation of employment, deprivation of social rights, and repetition of crime are among the most important negative effects of the criminal conviction. Given the mentioned negative consequences, criminology theorists have addressed the social reaction to the strategies for rehabilitating criminals. Limitations of the criminal law’s intervention through decriminalization,” Depenalization”, diversion, removal of employment barriers, and the use of corrective bodies such as adjournment of the execution of judgment, suspension of the execution of sentences, alternative prison, and the semi-freedom system are the most important strategies that can prevent the labeling and the results arising from it.