Reform in the Making: The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison - Rilegato

Lin, Ann Chih

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ISBN 10: 0691009848 ISBN 13: 9780691009841

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 2000

Riassunto

Is it time to give up on rehabiliting criminals? Record numbers of Americans are going to prision, and most of them will eventually return to society with a high chance of being repaet offenders. But a decision to abandon rehabilitation programmes would be premature warns Ann Chih Lin, who finds that little attention has been given to how these programmes are actually implemented and why they tend to fail. Here, she not only supplies much-needed information on the process of programme implementation but she also considers its social context - the daily realities faced by prison staff and inmates. By offering an in-depth look at common rehabilitation programmes currently in operation - education, job training and drug treatment - and examining how they are used of misused, Lin offers a practical approach to understanding their high failure rate and how the situation could be improved.

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Recensione

"An important and convincing book. . . . A welcome addition to the literature on both the implementation of social policy and the study of prisons. . . . Thoughtful and well-conceived."--Malcolm M. Feeley, Law and Politics Book Review

"Lin's acceptance of the problem of any general rehabilitative program in prison is her strong point, and the great value of this book. Putting grand theory behind helps to point the way out of the miasma and double-bind of prison life."--Larry E. Sullivan, Contemporary Sociology

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"Ann Chih Lin reopens the debate on rehabilitation while recognizing all the pitfalls that occurred under the concept of rehabilitation, such as indeterminate sentencing. She effectively uses implementation theory and aptly applies it to penal theory. Her book could become standard reading on penology and criminal justice in the United States."--Kathleen McDermott, Columbia University

"Reform in the Making is based on rich empirical detail from which the author constructs an account of rehabilitation programs in the specific context of prison life. The mundane realities of 'doing time' both as prisoner and as prison employee are carefully described. So too are the dilemmas of wrestling with the dual challenges of surviving and attaining some degree of satisfaction under daunting conditions. The book's case studies make a valuable empirical contribution to implementation studies, and especially to the growing body of work adopting a 'street-level' perspective."--Evelyn Z. Brodkin, University of Chicago

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0691009848
• ISBN 13: 9780691009841
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 232
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile