Reform in the making
Subtitle: the implementation of social policy in prison
By: Ann Chih Lin.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Prisons -- Government policy -- United States; Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States; Prisoners -- United States -- Social conditions
Other titles: Implementation of social policy in prison
Description: "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 indepth 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Revisiting rehabilitation : why "what works" is the wrong question; title: Keeping the peace: institutional needs, institutional values, and implementation; title: Unsuccessful implementation: the use and abuse of programs; title: Successful implementation: keeping busy and helping yourself; title: The importance of successful implementation: recasting the debate over mandatory and voluntary programs; title: Deliberately successful implementation: doing time, doing my time, and letting the time do me.