Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs
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- Synopsis
- Documented evidence suggests that community safety is best achievedthrough policies promoting human services rather than relyingtotally on prisons and that promoting intervention in anindividual's own environment (known as 'ecological integrity') isclosely associated with effective intervention. This is the first book to focus on the transfer of knowledge ofworldwide effective offender rehabilitation programs. Prominentresearchers and practitioners in the criminal justice field havecontributed their extensive knowledge of what it takes to implementeffective correctional practices with ecological integrity. * Reviews "real world" challenges of program effectiveness andsurvival * Offers effective, evidence based, innovative alternatives toimprisonment of offenders * Offers a common multi-level systems perspective as a frameworkfor the international case studies featured * The first book to focus on the transfer of knowledge and bestpractice through the concept of "technology transfer"
- Copyright:
- 2003
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 308 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780470848197
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780471720263
- Publisher:
- Wiley
- Date of Addition:
- 11/28/19
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Psychology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Gary A. Bernfeld
- Edited by:
- David P. Farrington
- Edited by:
- Alan W. Leschied
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