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
Table of Contents:
  • Revisiting rehabilitation : why "what works" is the wrong question
  • Keeping the peace: institutional needs, institutional values, and implementation
  • Unsuccessful implementation: the use and abuse of programs
  • Successful implementation: keeping busy and helping yourself
  • The importance of successful implementation: recasting the debate over mandatory and voluntary programs
  • Deliberately successful implementation: doing time, doing my time, and letting the time do me.

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