This article examines prevention in the criminal justice system through three main steps. First, it conducts a conceptual analysis of rehabilitation, resocialisation, and reintegration, reviewing terminological ambiguities at the international level and in Croatian legislation, where definitions often overlap and remain unclear whether they denote identical processes or distinct phases thereof. Second, it analyses domestic academic literature to assess how Croatian researchers address this terminological ambiguity while outlining their key conclusions alongside limitations such as scarce empirical data. Third, it evaluates practical implementation by contrasting the normative framework's rules for treatment delivery with actual program data from prison reports, noting inability to measure frequency or evaluate effectiveness and success, while highlighting penal system challenges like overcrowding and resource shortages, and need for data sources beyond official prison reports that incorporate inmates' experiences and perspectives from other penal actors.
Lea Feuerbach (Thu,) studied this question.