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Reform in the Making
Ann Chih Lin
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Description for Reform in the Making
paperback. By offering a look at common rehabilitation programs in operation - education, job training, and drug treatment - and examining how they are used or misused, this title offers a practical approach to understanding their high failure rate and how the situation could be improved. Num Pages: 232 pages, 11 tables. BIC Classification: JKVQ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 342.
Is it time to give up on rehabilitating criminals? Record numbers of Americans are going to prison, and most of them will eventually return to society with a high chance of becoming repeat offenders. But a decision to abandon rehabilitation programs now would be premature warns Ann Chih Lin, who finds that little attention has been given to how these programs are actually implemented and why they tend to fail. In Reform in the Making, she not only supplies much-needed information on the process of program implementation but she also considers its social context, the daily realities faced by prison ... Read more
Is it time to give up on rehabilitating criminals? Record numbers of Americans are going to prison, and most of them will eventually return to society with a high chance of becoming repeat offenders. But a decision to abandon rehabilitation programs now would be premature warns Ann Chih Lin, who finds that little attention has been given to how these programs are actually implemented and why they tend to fail. In Reform in the Making, she not only supplies much-needed information on the process of program implementation but she also considers its social context, the daily realities faced by prison ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691095998
SKU
V9780691095998
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About Ann Chih Lin
Ann Chih Lin is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of Michigan. With Sheldon Danziger, she is the coeditor of "The Social Contexts of Urban Poverty: Qualitative Research on the African-American Experience".
Reviews for Reform in the Making
"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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more