Research Catalog

Title

Rehabilitation, crime and justice / Peter Raynor and Gwen Robinson ; consulting editor, Jo Campling.

Author

Raynor, Peter.

Publication

Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Robinson, Gwen, 1969-

Description

vi, 204 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Should we simply punish offenders, or should they be sentenced in ways, which help them to learn how to manage their lives better and to do less harm to other people? This book is written for students and academics in the fields of criminal justice and penal policy, and for all those concerned professionally (as social workers, probation officers, prison officers, youth justice workers, magistrates), with the rehabilitation of offenders. The authors (who are experienced researchers and practitioners in this field) cover the history, theory and practice of rehabilitation over more than two hundred years. They also describe how penal policy and practice have been influenced by different views of the value and effectiveness of rehabilitation, ranging from early optimism to 'nothing works' and most recently the attempt to develop evidence-based practice in the 'What Works' movement. The final chapters review the latest evidence and argue for an approach to rehabilitation, which engages with communities and recognizes the offender's responsibility and potential for 'making good'.

Subject

• Criminals > Rehabilitation
• Criminal justice, Administration of
• Criminal psychology
• Réhabilitation
• Justice pénale > Administration
• Psychologie criminelle
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology
• Criminal justice, Administration of
• Criminal psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-200) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Defining Rehabilitation -- Justifying Rehabilitation -- Origins and Contexts -- The Rehabilitative Ideal: Advance and Temporary Retreat -- Adapting to the End of 'Treatment' -- The New Rehabilitation: 'What Works' and Corrections at the End of the Twentieth Century -- Against the Tide: Non-Treatment Paradigms for the Twenty-First Century -- The Futures of Rehabilitation.

ISBN

033368740X (cloth)

LCCN

^^2005047532

OCLC

60312019

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library