Reform in the Making : The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison /

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Is it time to give up on rehabilitating criminals? Record numbers of Americans are going to prison, and most of them will eventually return to society with a high chance of becoming repeat offenders. But a decision to abandon rehabilitation programs now would be premature warns Ann Chih Lin, who fin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lin, Ann Chih
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Prisons > Government policy.
Prisoners > Social conditions.
Criminals > Rehabilitation.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Prisonniers > États-Unis > Conditions sociales.
Rehabilitation > États-Unis.
Prisons > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
Prisoners > United States > Social conditions.
Criminals > Rehabilitation > United States.
Prisons > Government policy > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Is it time to give up on rehabilitating criminals? Record numbers of Americans are going to prison, and most of them will eventually return to society with a high chance of becoming repeat offenders. But a decision to abandon rehabilitation programs now would be premature warns Ann Chih Lin, who finds that little attention has been given to how these programs are actually implemented and why they tend to fail. In Reform in the Making, she not only supplies much-needed information on the process of program implementation but she also considers its social context, the daily realities faced by.
Physical Description:1 online resource (232 pages).
ISBN:9781400823673

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