Can criminals truly be rehabilitated?

Can horrible murders or rapists or child molesters ever truly change? No, I don't think they can, I believe, like you its something inside them that causes them to be able to do horrendous acts such as murder, rape, etc. and they should be safely locked away for life. Sometimes murder, like in self defence can be justified but premeditated murderers should all be hung. If someone sets out to deliberately take a life then they shouldn't be aloud to live themselves.

All humans are capable of Murder. Not so long ago we murdered to survive.We murdered to thrive, and we Murdered simply to show dominance.Murder is not always horrendous :) sometimes its justified. However thats besides the point, in answer to your question if the person had a reason to murder then I think they can be rehabilitated, however rapists and child molestors supposedly have a "disease" which yes I know is bs and just an excuse. But no rapists and child molestors won't change ever. Murders though.... sometimes murder can be justified I mean look at war.

yes i believe so. It's really simple to think of as to how this is possible but it is hard to be realized. Complete Rehabilitation can only be possible if these criminals repent of their sins and turn back to GOD. GOD can do wonders in them and make them a new creation, make their hearts clean and renew their spirits. This is the only way possible to rehabilitate criminals.

I really don't know, but I tend to doubt that, people who murder, they many of them show patterns from childhood, many abuse and kill animals wehn young. But then you hear about the BTK killer, we had one guy, lived maybe 2 miles from me, Kendell Francoise was the name, he actually worked in the middle school where my son went. He played touch football with the kids, was well liked, by teachers and students - and the man is a serial killer. I don't understand that kind of mentallity. I am sure he is being studied. But there is a comfort, most killers get long sentences, look at the judge in Vermont - 6 month sentences tochild abusers. Again, I don't do things like that, can they be rehabilitated I don't know. BUt if I had young kids, I would not take anyones word if they said they were rehabilitated.

We wii give the chance to the criminals to change their life styule aslo change their career.Because they are also the humans,Dueto some reasons only the are changed to illegal or criminals.We cannoit tell all the criminal are not change their way,its false,so we will give chance to that persons tho change their way of life.

Well depends on the nature of the crime, its dumb to even try to reform a murderer. Whereas, a petty thief, burglar can be reformed. People who commit horrible crimes do not deserve mercy, they should have used their own common sense before committing the crime. There is no such thing as malfunction with mental wiring, its just plain and simple disrespect for the law. Criminals should be given the right punishment as per law and there is no need to shed any tears for such people.

Murderers witha genuine cause can change perhaps but the rapists I don't think can be rahbilated becuase there minds are being polluted.

I have great doubts about this issue. I have seen so many that keep going through that revolving door and never seem to change. My daughter is a parole officer and she used to feel that almost everyone was capable of reform. Now that she has been doing this for several years, she has seen the same people going around and around and around.... It depresses her and she says when she changes professions after completing her masters that she will have to move out of this area. This is due to those people she has had to deal with that are repeat offenders and that she comes across in public. Many never change their way of thinking and they are a threat to her. I understand how she feels and it saddens me that she must move away. I feel as you do that there is something wrong in the mental structure that prevents them from rehabilitating themselves. I have discussed this very issue with a gentleman who dealt with offenders and he told me that he too used to think that reform was possible but that after years of experience he realized that he was wrong. He found it to be very depressing. Now, why is it that we have so much money going out to support those offenders and we continue to release them back out into society only to repeat their crimes? It is really a puzzle that we need to find a better solution to.

It's possible, but if it happens people are still not going to want them around...they don't want to take any chances.

That is a really tough question and really cannot be answered in my opinion without examining each individual case and the criminal. In general I do not believe child molesters can be rehabilitated, nor would I want to take a chance of letting someone like that go.

every one does some mistake but it does not mean that v all r criminals...every one do not mak a mistake jus lik that but it s the reaction with out a proper thinking..makes us do lik that ... it all depends on our brain

I think most of them can be rehabilitated if at all we come to study the reasons that led them to taking crime.

I tink so,but it is really a great pity that the malfunction can be only found after the hard crime is committed rather than before that. If scientists would find the crime gene and get it cut when the potencial "hard criminal" baby is born,it could be the best method to change the hard criminal fundamentally.

my opinion is no i feel that nobody should get off for what they did and i am offended by the government when they let someone out for good behavior and then they do it again just like the story of jaime bulgar who was a 2 year old murdered by 2 10 year olds who were released due to good behavior and givin new identities i think it is sick

They can be retrained to live in society but I doubt that all of their past behavior will be completely gone. There will always be a risk of them repeating the act.

yes some of them can and have ,but the bigest percentage of them don't.

I agree with you. I too honestly feel hard core criminals have do have some shortcomings mentally and they loose track to lead a normal good life. I doubt if they could ever be changed. Some might change as there are so many books and articles which do mention that changing a tough minded murders are not easy but not impossible either. I personally believe its impossible. Can't convince myself that people like them can change to a radical extent.

sometime a criminalist can be rehabilitate, but if i see the basic of the mad people, i should think twice to believing

Yes I think there might be a few mental problems in there, because normal people dont just rape kids, or murder someone etc. But yes I trully do believe that they can change if only they really want to. There is nothing impossible, there is nothing that we cant do. The question is only whether we WANT to or not. Sure they may need to go to mental consultation and such, but yeah if they want to change, then they can. Well it is easy for me to just say this ahhaha anyways if I was to face one person that has been charged for murder or rapist or anything like that and found guilty, Im not sure I could trust them just yet. However, that doesnt mean I dont believe that they can change.

the rehab success for sexually deviant behaviour is very low....but as far as other behaviours it really depends on...(most importantly) the persons ability to be honest with themselves...thier support systems...and access to services that focus on thier particular problem...in my experience working with offenders of all ages...there is always hope...but honesty is the key.