Alternatives to imprisonment as solution for delinquent's rehabilitation in modern societies

Abstract

The alternatives to imprisonment start from the premises that the best protection of the society, the most efficient and the most human protection is to rehabilitate all the delinquents, using all the means susceptible to act on their personality, respecting their personality and making them to rediscover the meaning of their social responsibility. The treatment of a drug addict delinquent, as alternative to imprisonment, is one of the most controversial forms of treatment, approached in different manners by the national penal and treatment systems. Romania considers that a more efficient and more flexible system of penal sanctions is required, which to promote measures which not deprive the people of their liberty, while increasing community involvement in the enforcement of the penal justice. Such a system would have as additional effect the reduction of the number of inmates and avoiding penitentiary overcrowding, as well as remediation of the harm caused to the victims by ensuring the means necessary for the social reintegration of the delinquents.