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Offender Rehabilitation in Practice
Bernfeld
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Description for Offender Rehabilitation in Practice
Paperback. Documented evidence suggests that community safety is best achieved through policies promoting human services rather than relying totally on prisons and that promoting intervention in an individual's own environment (known as 'ecological integrity') is closely associated with effective intervention. Editor(s): Bernfeld, Gary A.; Farrington, David P.; Leschied, Alan W. Series: Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology. Num Pages: 308 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: JKVQ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 169 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
Series
Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471720263
SKU
V9780471720263
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About Bernfeld
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Offender Rehabilitation in Practice
"...For a reader interested in a broad and theoretical review...this book is to be recommended..." (Forensic Update, July 2002)