Rethinking Corrections

Rethinking Corrections
Author: Lior Gideon
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 897
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1412970180

Explores the challenges faced by convicted offenders over the course of rehabilitation and reintegration. Each chapter focuses on a specific phase of the process.

Offender Reentry

Offender Reentry
Author: Matthew S Crow
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2013-04-24
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1449686036

An Innovative New Text That Addresses a Critical Issue Nearly 2,000 people are released from prison every day in the United States, many of whom face significant barriers to re-entry into the civilian population. Within three years, two-thirds of them will be rearrested, and nearly half will return to prison for a new crime or parole violation. Offender Reentry: Rethinking Criminology and Criminal Justice is the first text of its kind to address this major issue in criminology and criminal justice. Bringing together cutting-edge and never-before-published research, and authored by the most critically recognized experts in the field, this text offers students extraordinary insight into the experiences of both offenders in reentry and the practitioners who work within the legal system. Real-world stories from criminal justice professionals and offenders themselves are integrated with up-to-the minute research and thought-provoking analysis. Student-oriented pedagogical features, including critical-thinking and discussion questions for every chapter, push students to engage deeply with the text and synthesize their own innovative solutions to contemporary problems. The text addresses all of the societal factors that affect offender reentry, as well as the political and economic effects on the community and issues of public safety. Ideally suited for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in criminal justice and criminology, Offender Reentry is an invaluable new addition to the field.

Rethinking Prison Reentry

Rethinking Prison Reentry
Author: Tony Gaskew
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-02-15
Genre: EDUCATION
ISBN: 9781498501675

Gaskew presents a prison-based education designed to address a prevalent racial politics of shaming, self-segregation, and transgenerational learned-helplessness. He explores the Black counter-culture of crime and tasks incarcerated Black men to draw upon the strength of their cultural privilege to transform from criminal offender into student.

Special Needs Offenders in Correctional Institutions

Special Needs Offenders in Correctional Institutions
Author: Lior Gideon
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2012-09-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1412998131

Special Needs Offenders in Correctional Institutions offers a unique opportunity to examine the different populations behind bars (e.g. chronically and mentally ill, homosexual, illegal immigrants, veterans, radicalised inmates, etc.), as well as their needs and the corresponding impediments for rehabilitation and reintegration.

Corrections in the Community

Corrections in the Community
Author: Edward J. Latessa
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2015-03-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317410262

Corrections in the Community, Sixth Edition, examines the current state of community corrections and proposes an evidence-based approach to making programs more effective. As the U.S. prison system approaches meltdown, options like probation, parole, alternative sentencing, and both residential and non-residential programs in the community continue to grow in importance. This text provides a solid foundation and includes the most salient information available on the broad and dynamic subject of community corrections. Authors Latessa and Smith organize and evaluate the latest data on the assessment of offender risk/need/responsivity and successful methods that continue to improve community supervision and its effects on different types of clients, from the mentally ill to juveniles. This book provides students with a thorough understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of community corrections and prepares them to evaluate and strengthen these crucial programs. This sixth edition includes a new chapter on specialty drug and other problem-solving courts. Now found in every state, these specialty courts represent a new way to deal with some of the problems that face our citizens, be it substance abuse or reentry to the community from prison. Chapters contain key terms, boxed material, review questions, and recommended readings, and a glossary is provided to clarify important concepts.

Rethinking the Reentry Paradigm

Rethinking the Reentry Paradigm
Author: Melinda Schlager
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Criminals
ISBN: 9781594609237

The perspective that this text will take presupposes that offender reentry is not a static isolated event, but a process that occurs over time. Moreover, if reentry policy and practice is contextualized as a process rather than as a finite event, preparation and planning can drive reentry, not a prison release date. Consequently, this text will discuss the issue of offender reentry in more global terms and locate solutions to reentry issues on a continuum of service that begins at entry to prison, includes release from prison, and culminates with integration into the community.

Rethinking Juvenile Justice

Rethinking Juvenile Justice
Author: Elizabeth S Scott
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0674043367

What should we do with teenagers who commit crimes? In this book, two leading scholars in law and adolescent development argue that juvenile justice should be grounded in the best available psychological science, which shows that adolescence is a distinctive state of cognitive and emotional development. Although adolescents are not children, they are also not fully responsible adults.

Rethinking Rehabilitation

Rethinking Rehabilitation
Author: David Farabee
Publisher: A E I Press
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2005
Genre: Law
ISBN:

This monograph contends that fundamental principles of deterrence are far more humane in the long run than the progressive approaches that are becoming more popular today.

Professional Lives of Community Corrections Officers: The Invisible Side of Reentry

Professional Lives of Community Corrections Officers: The Invisible Side of Reentry
Author: Faith E. Lutze
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1483322467

One of the first contemporary works to bring together research focused on community corrections officers, Professional Lives of Community Corrections Officers: The Invisible Side of Reentry, by Faith E. Lutze, helps readers understand the importance of community corrections officers to the success of the criminal justice system. The author brings the important work of these officers out from the shadows of the prison and into the light of informed policymaking, demonstrating how their work connects to the broader political, economic, and social context. Arguing that they are "street-level boundary spanners" who are in the best position to lead effective reentry initiatives built on interagency collaboration, the author shows how community corrections officers can effectively lead a fluid response to reentry that is inclusive of control, support, and treatment. This supplement is ideal for community corrections or probation and parole courses to supplement core textbooks.

Alternatives to Prison

Alternatives to Prison
Author: Stephen Stanley
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1984
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Stephen Stanley and Mary Baginsky examine and evaluate the range of non-custodial sentences available to the courts, discussing their effectiveness, and exploring the often complex issues they raise. Drawing on a wide range research literature, this is both a clear and informative synthesis of thinking on a pressing problem and an important contribution to the wider debate about how society should deal with crime and criminals.