Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Prog

Offender Rehabilitation in PracticeImplementing and Evaluating Effective Programs\nAuthor(s): Gary A. Bernfeld, David P. Farrington, Alan W. Leschied\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9780471720263, 978-0471720263\nSynopsis\nDocumented evidence suggests that community safety is best achievedthrough policies promoting human services rather than relyingtotally on prisons and that promoting intervention in anindividual's own environment (known as 'ecological integrity') isclosely associated with effective intervention.\n This is the first book to focus on the transfer of knowledge ofworldwide effective offender rehabilitation programs. Prominentresearchers and practitioners in the criminal justice field havecontributed their extensive knowledge of what it takes to implementeffective correctional practices with ecological integrity.\n \n * Reviews \""real world\"" challenges of program effectiveness andsurv""