Rehabilitation

(2) The inquiry under this section shall be completed within four months of the receipt of the order or within such shorter period as may be fixed by the Committee: Provided that the time for the submission of the inquiry report may be extended by such period as the Committee Read more…

(i) Adoption; (ii) Foster care; (iii) Sponsorship; and (iv) Sending the child to an after-care organisation. Comment: When a juvenile or child is brought to a Children’s Home, Special Home or a shelter home, efforts should be made for his rehabilitation and reintegration. This section suggests four alternative measures for Read more…

(2) The children’s home or a shelter home, as the case may be, shall take such steps as are considered necessary for the restoration of and protection to a child deprived of his family environment temporarily or permanently where such child is under the care and protection of a children’s Read more…

[(2) Adoption shall be resorted to for the rehabilitation of the children who are orphan, abandoned or surrendered through such mechanism as may be prescribed. (3) In keeping with the provisions of the various guidelines for adoption issued from time to time, by the State Government, or the Central Adoption Read more…

[1] There shall be credited to the Fund such voluntary donations, contributions or subscriptions as may be made by any individual or organisation. [1] The Fund created under sub-section (1) shall be administered by the State Advisory Board in such manner and for such purposes as may be prescribed. The Read more…

(a) Inquire, in accordance with any directions of a Court, into the circumstances or home surroundings of any person accused of an offence with a view to assist the Court in determining the most suitable method of dealing with him and submit reports to the Court; (b) Supervise probationers and Read more…

(a) A person appointed to be a Probation Officer by the State Government or recognised as such by the State Government; or (b) A person provided for this purpose by a society recognised in this behalf by the State Government; or (c) In any exceptional case, any other person who, Read more…

Unfortunately, the system did not yield good results because prisoners were discharged from prisons merely on surety for good behaviour without being prepared and trained for a disciplined life in the community. In absence of adequate after-care, these discharged prisoners often developed recidivistic tendencies thus rendering public life more insecure Read more…

Since a nation’s future depends upon young generation, the children deserve compassion and bestowal of the best care to protect this burgeoning human resource. A child is born innocent and if nourished with tender care and attention, he or she will blossom with faculties physical, mental, moral and spiritual, into Read more…

Commenting on need for liberalisation of parole policy K.F. Rustomji, a Member of the National Police Commission, in one of his tour-notes described the pathetic condition of Indian prison and observed that the personality of a man behind walls and bars disintegrates under the strain of waiting for a decision Read more…

Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov is the fictional protagonist of Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The story is told almost exclusively from his point of view. The name Raskolnikov derives from the Russian raskolnik meaning “divided”.  The name Rodion comes from Greek and indicates an inhabitant of Rhodes.       Rodion Raskolnikov Read more…

The history of prisons in India and elsewhere clearly reflects the changes in society’s reaction to crime from time to time. The system of imprisonment represents a curious combination of different objectives of punishment. Thus, prison may serve to deter the offender or it may be used as a method Read more…

The topic of using for-profit, or private, prisons at the federal and state levels is a topic that has come up quite often in the past few years. Many argue that private prisons are a cost savings measure that can be utilized to keep the federal budgets for prisons down. Read more…

Alcoholics and drug addicts take to drinking or use of drugs for a variety of reasons. The factors mainly responsible for the spread of this evil are: 1. Rapid industrialisation and urbanisation have ushered a new way of life with new values like permissiveness. As a result, the age-old inhibitions, Read more…

Some of the measures which may be suggested for suppressing recidivism are as follows:— 1. The modem correctional methods of treatment of offenders essentially involve classification of criminals into different categories so that they can be adequately punished or sent to an appropriate institution. From this point of view of Read more…