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What Works in Corrections
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 33.00This assesses the effectiveness of rehabilitation programs, specialized treatment for different types of offenders, management and treatment of drug-involved offenders and punishment, control and surveillance interventions to provide an intensive review of correctional interventions and programs. Through extensive research, MacKenzie illustrates which... more...
Das Delikt der Gefangenenbefreiung
BWV Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag 2010; US$ 46.28Hauptbeschreibung Ausgehend von der geschichtlichen Entwicklung des Tatbestandes der Gefangenenbefreiung setzt sich die vorliegende Untersuchung insbesondere mit dem Schutzgut der Vorschrift, ihrem Verhältnis zum Tatbestand der Strafvereitelung, der exakten Bestimmung des "Gefangenenbegriffs" sowie der dogmatischen Behandlung des - in vielen Nachbarländern... more...
Marking Time in the Golden State
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 25.00In this book, prisoners are treated as important sources of knowledge about prisons and imprisonment during the last three decades. The authors examine both how women prisoners' lives changed over time and how they were affected by the new generation of prisons. more...
Lawful Order
Routledge 1999; US$ 56.95Prisons remain a controversial topic for debate in our society. While few doubt the necessity of their existence, there is considerable debate over their purpose, organization, and processes. Do prisons exist to rehabilitate, punish, or simply incarcerate? How do we judge prison conditions? If those conditions are found to be unacceptable, how do we... more...
Social Problem Solving and Offending
Wiley 2005; US$ 179.95The evidence for social problem solving deficits being relevant to the understanding and treatment of offending behaviour has been accumulating since the 1980s. Reasoning and Rehabilitation (R&R), the first structured cognitive-behavioural treatment programme used widely with prisoners, included social problem solving as a key component and is now... more...
The Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders
SAGE Publications 2001; US$ 62.00In this book Iain Crow provides an accessible overview of the concepts of treatment and rehabilitation, adopting a deliberately broad definition, and considers the historical basis of treatment, and its place within the penal system and British criminology. more...
Understanding Desistance from Crime
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 165.00The growth of interest in why people stop offending and how they are resettled following punishment has been remarkable. Once a marginal topic in criminology, it is now a central topic of research and theorising amongst those studying criminal careers. This book is both an introduction to research on desistance, and the report on a follow-up of two... more...
Constructive Work with Offenders
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2006; US$ 36.95This book offers a challenge to many of the assumptions of criminal justice policy and the dominant approaches to practice. The contributors advocate an emphasis on constructive work with offenders that harnesses their positive strengths and resources, and offers inclusive approaches to effective offender assessment and intervention. more...









