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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 staff and inmates. By offering an in-depth look at common rehabilitation programs currently in operation--education, job training, and drug treatment--and examining how they are used or misused, Lin offers a practical approach to understanding their high failure rate and how the situation could be improved. Based on extensive observation and over 350 interviews with staff and prisoners in five medium-security male prisons, the book contrasts successfully implemented programs with subverted, abandoned, or neglected programs (those which staff reject or which do not teach prisoners anything useful). Lin explains that staff and prisoners have little patience with programs aimed at long-range goals when they must face the ongoing, immediate challenge of surviving prison life. Finding incentives to make both sides participate fully in rehabilitation is among the book's many contributions to improving prison policy.
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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99-1
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 helps to point the way out of the miasma and double-bind of prison life."
Larry E. Sullivan, Contemporary Sociology
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