Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs - Paperback

by Gary A. Bernfeld (Editor), David P. Farrington (Editor), Alan W. Leschied (Editor)

Documented 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.

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.

* Reviews "real world" challenges of program effectiveness andsurvival

* Offers effective, evidence based, innovative alternatives toimprisonment of offenders

* Offers a common multi-level systems perspective as a frameworkfor the international case studies featured

* The first book to focus on the transfer of knowledge and bestpractice through the concept of "technology transfer"

Front Jacket

Offender Rehabilitation in Practice is the first book in its field to reconcile the perspectives of both researchers and practitioners. Bernfeld, Farrington and Leschied go beyond the concept of what works, by combining a review of this knowledge, with an effective guidebook on the implementation of state-of-the-art programs in the field.

Divided into three parts, all the chapters have either a programmatic, or an economic, or a policy focus. Part I discusses key issues in operational effectiveness. Part II details implementation issues arising from specific programs. Part III takes a much broader view by reviewing the experiences of those involved in the implementation of, the evaluation of, and consultation for correctional programs across multiple sites.

With its emphasis on technology transfer, Offender Rehabilitation in Practice will be invaluable to a wide range of professionals in the adult and juvenile correctional field, including practitioners, administrators, policymakers and researchers.

This book is published in the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology

Back Jacket

Offender Rehabilitation in Practice is the first book in its field to reconcile the perspectives of both researchers and practitioners. Bernfeld, Farrington and Leschied go beyond the concept of "what works", by combining a review of this knowledge, with an effective guidebook on the implementation of state-of-the-art programs in the field.

Divided into three parts, all the chapters have either a programmatic, or an economic, or a policy focus. Part I discusses key issues in operational effectiveness. Part II details implementation issues arising from specific programs. Part III takes a much broader view by reviewing the experiences of those involved in the implementation of, the evaluation of, and consultation for correctional programs across multiple sites.

With its emphasis on technology transfer, Offender Rehabilitation in Practice will be invaluable to a wide range of professionals in the adult and juvenile correctional field, including practitioners, administrators, policymakers and researchers.

This book is published in the Wiley Series in Forensic Clinical Psychology

Author Biography

Gary A. Bernfeld is the editor of Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs, published by Wiley.

David Philip Farrington OBE is a British criminologist, forensic psychologist, and emeritus professor of psychological criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow.

Alan W. Leschied is the editor of Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs, published by Wiley.