self renewal quadrant analysis to classify types of prisone - amended version(1)

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Self Renewal Quadrant Analysis to Classify Types of Prisoner

Prisoner rehabilitation is a costly affair and a heavy burden to thetax payers. Billions are spent to assist the criminals to turn over a

new leaf while they are serving their sentence. The goal of

rehabilitation is to reform the prisoners from committing crimes

and assisting them in starting normal lives once they are released

to the main stream of society. The house of rehabilitation is set

up in every prison with numerous therapeutic and educational

programs to assist them to self-actualize besides helping them toacquire the living skills to prepare them to earn a decent

livelihood and live a normal life.

According to an online article "Prisoner Rehabilitation"

(http://www.rehabilitations.org/prisoner-rehabilitation.html

accessed 12 April 2012); research indicates approximately 70% ofthe released prisoners return to jail within a few years. They are

stucked with their old, die hard habits as envisaged in the high

rate of recidivism among offenders. In addition, there are cases

of small offenders who evolve to become big offenders when they

return to jail.

In view of the above, there is a need to develop a self-renewal

quadrant analysis to enable the prison officers to identify the

types of prisoners, recognize their pattern of behavior and help

them more effectively to change for the better.


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Self- renewal of a prisoner is a function of the need, desire or

wants to change or reform and the environment. The objective

of the house of rehabilitation is to energize these inner states for

change. During the period of sentencing while the prisoner is

going through the rehabilitation programs, the prison officers as

change agents must be able to identify prisoner with high needs,

desire or want for change and those with low needs , wants or

desire for change.

Hence, prisoners lie on the continuum of "I don't want to reform

and live a normal life" to "I want to reform and live a normal life"

as shown below:

Self renewal is also a function of how the prisoners perceive the

environment. A perceived favorable environment energizes and

facilitates the desire or wants to change or reform. A perceived

unfavorable environment diminishes and eventually stops the

want or desire to reform and live a normal life.

Hence the environment of a prisoner lies in the continuum of

Perceived unfavorable to perceived unfavorable environment


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Crossing the two continuums a Performance Quadrant Analysis

(PQA) is developed to classify prisoners into different types as

shown in the figure below:


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Q1: The early adopter

An early adopter is a prisoner who perceives the environment is

favorable for him/her to reform and live a normal life and wants

to reform.

Below are the behavioral indicators of the adopter:

Demonstrates positive attitude towards self and others

Works hard to acquire vocational and living skills

Participates actively in community services

Avoids getting into trouble with psychopaths and drug

addicts

High commitment to change for the better

Cooperative and helpful

Shows matured behavior

Believes in self to change for the better

Readily admits and become apologetic when they make

mistakes and willing to learn from them

High respect for rules and regulations


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Respects others rights and properties

Obeys and carries out prison officers instructions

Able to take criticisms and reprimands calmly

Walks their talk

Trustworthy, reliable and responsible

Displays great enthusiasm at work

Receptive to counseling programs

Helpful and cooperative

Able to get along well with others

Q2: The resistor is a prisoner who has made up his or her mind

initially not to reform but at a later stage is partially influenced by

the favorable environment causing him or her to be indecisive to

change and live a normal life.

Below are the behavioral indicators of the resistor:

Demonstrates lack of trust for the prison authority

Demonstrates lukewarm interest to acquire vocational and

living skills

Inconsistent in following rules and regulations

Erratic performance


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Moderate commitment to reform

Average intellectual and analytical skills

Able to see parts of the big and small picture

Quite stubborn and hard headed

Tends to be aggressive and violent when provoked

Superficial relationship with others

Aloof and detached

Uncomfortable working in groups

Q3: The late adopter is a prisoner who wants to reform but

could not reform due to unfavorable environment, for example,

he or she is rejected each time he or she applies for a job to earn

a decent living.

Below are the behavioral indicators of the late adopter:

Susceptible to the influences of others

Nave, frank and gullible

Trusts others inappropriately

Self-revealing

Predictable pattern of behavior

Vulnerable subjected to being used and abused


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Follows the crowd

Indecisiveness due to lack of confidence

Depends on others to help him or her to make up his or hermind

Tends to use ones heart that ones brain

Expresses his or her good and bad feelings openly

Gregarious, outgoing and enjoy social interactions

Moody and erratic

Q4: The hard core is a prisoner who sees the world as rats eating

rats with the best transcending the rests. He or she is a

psychopath who thinks he or she can outsmart everybody else for

his or her survival and to satisfy his or her dominant needs. He or

she perceives the environment whether it is favorable or

unfavorable as unfavorable and has made his or her mind not to

reform.

Below are the behavioral indicators of the hardcore criminal:

Able to behave like a chameleon and conceal their behavior

Puts up a mask when interacting and engaging with others

A wolf in sheep clothing


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Cunning, deceptive, complicated and unpredictable

Revengeful know many ways to skin a cat

Influential with the ability to get other prisoners to do thingstheir way

Good at persuading, convincing mobilizing others to create

chaos

Able to manipulate and use others to achieve his or her

personal motive and agendum

Able to wriggle out of a difficult situation

Have many skeletons in their closet

Able to size people up and treat them like puppets

Able to work themselves into the good books of the prison

authority

Takes calculated risks

Is an Egomaniac believes he or she is always right

Knows who, when, where and how to use their resources to

wrangle out of their predicaments

Possesses an unrecognizable pattern of behavior that varies

with the situation and across time

self renewal quadrant analysis to classify types of prisone - amended version(1)

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