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Based on the author's extensive experience as a senior New York State parole officer, this book features in-the-trenches practitioner's insights of the complex, “real” world of probation and parole. Comprehensive in approach, it explores the cutting-edge of both practice and theory with regard to all aspects of adult and juvenile probation, institutions, and parole—and highlights the current controversial issues. Includes actual materials (reports, forms, and narratives) encountered in the field of juvenile and adult probation and parole agencies throughout the country. Coverage ranges from history and administration; to sentencing and the presentence investigation; juvenile court, probation, institutions, and aftercare; prisons and community-based corrections; the indeterminate sentence and punishments; parole administration and services; theory and practice of rehabilitation; parole supervision; special problems and programs; and probation and parole in the Twenty- First Century. For those involved in Probation and Parole and Community Corrections.
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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 date1991
- ISBN 10 0137174977
- ISBN 13 9780137174973
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number4
- Number of pages418
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