- Introduction and Objectives

Effective rehabilitation services for offenders require the incorporation of specially designed treatment programmes to guide offenders onto the right track, prevent them from committing crime again, and assist them to start afresh so that they can become not only law-abiding citizens but also contributing members of society.

The overall objective of the services for offenders is to use social work approaches in providing community-based rehabilitation service and residential care service for offenders to help them reform and reintegrate into the community as law-abiding citizens through statutory supervision, counselling, academic, prevocational and social skills training, etc.