Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs

✍ Scribed by Gary A. Bernfeld, David P. Farrington, Alan W. Leschied

• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Documented evidence suggests that community safety is best achieved through policies promoting human services rather than relying totally on prisons and that promoting intervention in an individual's own environment (known as 'ecological integrity') is closely associated with effective intervention. This is the first book to focus on the transfer of knowledge of worldwide effective offender rehabilitation programs. Prominent researchers and practitioners in the criminal justice field have contributed their extensive knowledge of what it takes to implement effective correctional practices with ecological integrity. * Reviews "real world" challenges of program effectiveness and survival * Offers effective, evidence based, innovative alternatives to imprisonment of offenders * Offers a common multi-level systems perspective as a framework for the international case studies featured * The first book to focus on the transfer of knowledge and best practice through the concept of "technology transfer"

✦ Table of Contents

OFFENDER REHABILITATION IN PRACTICE......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 9
About the editors......Page 11
List of contributors......Page 13
Series Editors' Preface......Page 17
Preface......Page 21
INTRODUCTION......Page 23
1. Implementation issues......Page 25
PART I: KEY ISSUES IN CORRECTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS......Page 43
2. What works in correctional intervention? Evidence and practical implications......Page 47
3. Evaluating the economic efficiency of correctional intervention programs......Page 67
4. Evaluating the effectiveness of correctional programs: bridging the gap between research and practice......Page 89
PART II: IMPLEMENTING SPECIFIC PROGRAMS......Page 115
5. A multi-level perspective on the implementation of multisystemic therapy (MST): attempting dissemination with fidelity......Page 119
6. Aggression replacement training: application and evaluation management......Page 143
7. In search of program implementation: 792 replications of the Teaching-Family Model......Page 171
8. The struggle for treatment integrity in a "dis-integrated" service delivery system......Page 189
9. "Straight thinking on probation": evidence-based practice and the culture of curiosity......Page 211
10. Designing, implementing and managing treatment programs for violent offenders......Page 227
PART III: IMPLEMENTING GENERAL PROGRAMS......Page 245
11. Implementing offender classification systems: lessons learned......Page 249
12. Implementation guidelines for correctional programs in the "real world"......Page 269
13. The role of the consultant in developing effective correctional programs......Page 291
Index......Page 305