After writing about his experiences in prisons, where he carried on research, American sociologist Robert Martinson claimed that rehabilitation programs did not work for convicted criminals who reoffended repeatedly. As a result, even though he later changed his mind, his findings were disputed at the time and caused the cancellation of several rehabilitation programs in the US.
Transitive verbs, used with a direct objects, cast action to an object and may also have an indirect object, which indicates to or for whom the action is done. On the other hand, an intransitive verb will never takes an object.
