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Get It Right!
89 minute DVD in four parts by Dr. Fauteck.
Personable, informal, with sounds and graphics.
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PAUL KARSTEN FAUTECK, PSY.D., DABPS
SOME BASIC POINTS:
- Criminal rehabilitation works to reduce criminal recidivism.
In fact, criminal rehabilitation is a cost-efficient form of
crime prevention.
- Prison education programs are not “coddling criminals.” Society
in general benefits from prison education programs, and in
the long run, they can actually save tax dollars.
- Not all criminals, even “convicted felons,” are
unredeemable psychopaths. The great majority are capable of
changing.
- Prisoner re-entry programs pay dividends, not just in crime reduction, but in expanding the tax base as well.
- There are tools available! A book you can learn
about here will:
- help any reader better understand the criminal
lifestyle and the challenges of criminal rehabilitation;
- serve
as a guide for practicing criminals who are struggling to make
that big change.
We have a higher crime rate, especially
violent crime, than any other advanced nation, and we have
a greater percentage of our people behind bars.
For many years now, candidates all the way
from village trustees to the president of the U.S. have |
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| successfully
wooed voters by promising to “get tough”(or “git tuff” as Molly Ivins puts
it) on crime and criminals. There’s not much talk of
getting smart about the problem. |
Think about it: On
average, incarceration costs about $22,000 per year: To lock someone away for ten years
costs,
on average, about $220,000. A shorter sentence with emphasis on
re-education and rehabilitation would be cheaper and more effective.
Rather than
being excessively easy for convicts,
the rehabilitation-oriented
correctional institution makes more demands on inmates than the
warehouse/crime school kind of prison.
You know that some 60% to 70% of released prisoners are re-convicted within three years. But what about the 30% to 40% – which
adds up to millions of people over the years – who don’t
recidivate? Doesn’t society have something to learn from them?
Couldn’t they be a valuable resource in teaching other offenders
to get their acts together?
Who is this Paul Karsten Fauteck, with Psy.D., DABPS (whatever
that means) after his name?
 Just another ordinary citizen, with an extraordinary
background.
You see, I have pursued a forensic psychology
career, have examined thousands of defendants in criminal cases,
and have testified as an expert witness hundreds of times. The letters
after my name mean Doctor of Psychology, and DABPS means Diplomate
American Board of Psychological Specialties. It’s just recognition
that I have enough training and experience to know what I’m
doing.
And
long ago, I also pursued a criminal career, getting into one kind
of trouble after another, eventually spending my 21st through 24th
birthdays as a guest of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, going to solitary
confinement six or seven times, but deciding when I got out with
a G.E.D. and a $20 bill, that I would stay out. Which I have.
I took a lot from society back then, and I’ve tried to give
some of it back. That’s why this website is here. Having seen
it from both sides, I certainly don’t know it all, but perhaps
have a perspective that could make a small dent, at least, in the
problems I’ve described.
One thing hasn’t changed about me:
I still have a talent for pissing people off!
 So
if you expect me to beat a “law and order” drum, yell
that criminals don’t deserve any consideration at all,
and say that more than anything else we need bigger and meaner
police officers and more prisons, be prepared to be pissed off!
In my opinion, we’ve
had too much of that horsie-poo and it just doesn’t work.
But if you expect me to tell you that all offenders
are just misunderstood victims of circumstances, ready to behave
like angels the minute you quit punishing them and start trusting
them, well, you, too, are going to be pissed off! Because that’s
not how it is. That’s not what I was like, and that’s
not what the vast majority of active offenders are like.
Thanks for your interest and attention. I hope
you’ll check out this entire site, and that you’ll return.
I hope to add more to it in the future. |
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