Can offenders be rehabilitated? Can this be done in ways that benefit the community as a whole, as well as offenders? This book is about the history, theory, practice and effectiveness of rehabilitation. It shows how different beliefs about the value of rehabilitation and about ‘what works’ have influenced criminal justice policy and practice at different times, and it identifies a number of promising approaches for the future. Everyone interested in the rehabilitation of offenders should read this book.
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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
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Author Peter Raynor: Peter Raynor is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Swansea University in Wales, UK. A former probation officer and social work educator, he has been carrying out and publishing research on effective practice in probation services since the 1970s. His previous books include Social Work, Justice and Control (1985); Probation as an Alternative to Custody (1988); Effective Probation Practice (with Smith and Vanstone, Macmillan, 1994); Understanding Community Penalties (with Vanstone, 2002); Race and Probation (with Lewis, Smith and Wardak, 2005); Developments in Social Work with Offenders (with Gill Mc Ivor, Jessica Kingsley 2007); Rehabilitation,
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