Probation and parole: Theory and practice - Hardcover
Probation and Parole: Theory and Practice, Ninth Edition takes a look inside the real world of probation and parole. Featuring a front-line practitioner's insights based on the author's extensive experience as a senior New York State parole officer, this book exposes readers to the complex, “real” world of probation and parole. Comprehensive in approach, this book provides a thorough understanding of the field of probation and parole covering these topics: history and administration, sentencing and the pre-sentence investigation, juvenile court, probation, institutions, and aftercare, prisons and community-based corrections, indeterminate and determinate sentences, the theory and practice of rehabilitation, parole supervision and special problems and programs. For future or practicing probation and parole officers.
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Using a practitioner's perspective, this text provides a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of juvenile and adult probation/parole and community corrections in America.
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This text is appealing to both teachers and students because of Dr. Abadinsky's extensive probation and parole background.
The eighth edition has been streamlined and expanded into fourteen chapters, with some chapters reorganized.
New to this edition:
- Material on supervising substance-abusing offenders
- Additional material on supervising sex offenders
- Additional material on supervising persons with HIV/AIDS
To remain cutting edge in the field, this edition continues to use materials from juvenile and adult probation and parole agencies throughout the country, providing state-of-the-art practices in probation and parole.
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- PublisherPrentice-Hall
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 013715996X
- ISBN 13 9780137159963
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number3
- Number of pages399
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