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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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Main Author: Lin, Ann Chih
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
Subjects:
Prisons > Government policy > United States.
Criminals > Rehabilitation > United States.
Prisoners > United States > Social conditions.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:1400812550
9781400812554
9781400823673
1400823676
9780691009841
0691009848
9780691095998
069109599X
9786612767074
6612767073
1282767070
9781282767072
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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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