Crime and employment
Subtitle: critical issues in crime reduction for corrections
By: edited by Jessie L Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher
Contributors: Krienert, Jessie L., 1974-; Fleisher, Mark S
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Ex-convicts -- Employment -- United States; Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Foreword: the correctional dilemma: employment and social integration / Jess Maghan; title: Preface; title: Pre-imprisonment employment: introduction; title: Behind the practioner's desk: prosecutors, jobs and crime / Douglas S. Weiner; title: The employment status dichotomy: understanding what this means and using it for your advantage in program development / Adam M. Bossler; title: Economic rehabilitation: a reassessment of the link between employment and crime / Jessie L. Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher; title: Prison industries: introduction; title: Behind the practioner's desk: something to lose: a balanced and reality-based rationale for institutional programming / Peter M. Carlson; title: The effect of prison industry and vocational training on post release outcome: does race matter? / William G. Saylor Gerald G. Gaes; title: Employment and crime: what is the problem and what can be done about it from the inmate's perspective? / Martha L. Henderson; title: Ex-offenders: introduction; title: Behind the practioner's desk: Illinois criminal justice information authority / Candice M. Kane; title: Jabbing blow, pitching rocks, and stacking paper: how drug-selling street gangs organize the reentry of male ex-convicts into the community / Gregory S. Scott; title: Work as a turning point for criminal offenders / Christopher Uggen and Jeremy Staff; title: In the community: introduction; title: Behind the practioner's desk: opportunity provision in the context of merging science and community-based best practice / Daniel J. Flannery; title: Finding ways to get paid: social networks and illegitimate work / Norman A. White; title: Drug selling: a rational choice / Mark S. Fleisher and Jessie L. Krienert