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@article{147074,
        author = {Kalu, Chinenye K.},
        title = {EXPLAINING THE RATIONAL BEHIND EX-CONVICTS TENDENCY TO REVERT BACK TO CRIME IN PORT HARCOURT},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {},
        volume = {5},
        number = {4},
        pages = {172-178},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=147074},
        abstract = {The prison is a correctional legal institute designed for the safe custody of the interned. Rehabilitation programmes for Ex-convicts are training platforms designed by government to reform and reintegrate ex-convicts back to society. Recidivating is the term that explains the reversion of an individual to criminal tendency after he/she have been convicted for a prior offence, sentenced and presumably corrected (maltsz, 2001:1)
Rehabilitation programmes is operationalized and used in this study as community support, vocational training, employment placement, family ties and parole system.
},
        keywords = {},
        month = {},
        }