Is it time to give up on rehabiliting criminals? Record numbers of Americans are going to prision, and most of them will eventually return to society with a high chance of being repaet offenders. But a decision to abandon rehabilitation programmes would be premature warns Ann Chih Lin, who finds that little attention has been given to how these programmes are actually implemented and why they tend to fail. Here, she not only supplies much-needed information on the process of programme 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 programmes currently in operation - education, job training and drug treatment - and examining how they are used of misused, Lin offers a practical approach to understanding their high failure rate and how the situation could be improved.
- ISBN10 0691009848
- ISBN13 9780691009841
- Publish Date 7 May 2000 (first published 1 May 2000)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English
- URL https://press.princeton.edu/titles/6861.html