Offender Rehabilitation in Practice : Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs Paperback / softback
Edited by Gary A. (Behavioural Science Technology Program, St Lawrence College, Ontario, Canada) Bernfeld, David P. (Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK) Farrington, Alan W. (Faculty of Education, University of Western Ontario, Canada) Leschied
Part of the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology series
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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"
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication Date:24/07/2001
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- ISBN:9780471720263
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:296 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Publication Date:24/07/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780471720263