Re-Integration of Ex-Convicts into The Society

In society, the people who engage in criminal activities that are not necessarily petty, the justice system sentences them into prison for a specified period as a matching punishment for their wrongs. This punishment ceases when the prison department releases a convict back into society. However, the individual returns to their former free world with an "ex-convict" label. Although these people are legally free in the eyes of the justice system, the social stigma is still present in society, which still identifies them as criminals. The labeling theory demonstrates that a person's identity can get altered to his discredit because specific qualities linked with their behaviors are stigmatized (Perez, 2021). Although criminal or deviant behavior can result from different causes and circumstances, once society labels or defines a person as bad, they frequently face novel challenges, from the response of self and others to the negative stereotypes associated with the deviant identity. Labeling has significant aftermaths, including the alteration of self-image along the social stigma, with the perception of being a deviant in the community taking over. The crime-doer gets imprisoned; however, society rejects them and still perceives them as the exact people who committed a crime and associates their actions with those done by ex-convicts.