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Offender Rehabilitation in Practice

Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs

David P Farrington editor Alan W Leschied editor Gary A Bernfeld editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley & Sons Inc

Published:24th Jul '01

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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"

"...For a reader interested in a broad and theoretical review...this book is to be recommended..." (Forensic Update, July 2002)

ISBN: 9780471720263

Dimensions: 247mm x 168mm x 18mm

Weight: 539g

296 pages