Reform in the making : the implementation of social policy in prison /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2000.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 1400812550 9781400812554 9781400823673 1400823676 9780691009841 0691009848 9780691095998 069109599X 9786612767074 6612767073 1282767070 9781282767072 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 213 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-205) and index. |
| Language Note: | English. |
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