Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs

ISBN 10: 0471720267 / ISBN 13: 9780471720263

Published by Wiley, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471720267
• ISBN 13: 9780471720263
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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"

About the Author

Gary A. Bernfeld is the editor of Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs, published by Wiley.

David Philip Farrington OBE is a British criminologist, forensic psychologist, and emeritus professor of psychological criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow.

Alan W. Leschied is the editor of Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs, published by Wiley.