A Qualitative Study on the Released Habitual Criminals' Life -Focused on the Correctional Volunteers' Experience-
This study is designed to examine the released habitual criminals' life focused on the correctional volunteers' experience. Recently, incarceration of habitual criminals has been issued as a sort of social problem in terms of human rights, and the correctional authorities are going to release the habitual criminals to communities. In this context, it is very important task to study on the habitual criminals' life after their release from correctional institutions. In this study, mainly Grounded theory is applied to analyze the data which is collected through intensive interviews with 5 correctional volunteers. The 5 participants have experienced to help habitual criminals for more than 10 years. This interviewed data is analyzed by open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. According to the result of the study, it is found that released habitual criminals make their lives in the following three ways, an adaptive model, a rough model, and an offence model. Firstly, an adaptive model makes their way well with difficulties. Secondly, a rough model make their lives in legally and illegally. Thirdly, an offence model commit a crime again, and get back to correctional institution. For these reasons, it is necessary that social workers have to intervene the released habitual criminals' rehabilitation in the regards of the models.