Prisoner Resettlement: Policy and Practice

✍ Scribed by Anthea Hucklesby, Lystra Hagley-Dickinson

Publisher: Willan
Year: 2007
Tongue: English
Leaves: 341
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Prisoner resettlement is high on current political and policy agendas. The high reconviction rates of ex-prisoners have been acknowledged for many years but the rapidly rising prison population has meant that more prisoners than ever before are released. This together with the pressure this puts on to the infrastructure of the prison estate and the publication of two influential reports which highlighted the problems faced by prisoners leaving prison has concentrated attention on attempts to ensure that prisoners do not return to prison once released. Prisoner Resettlement provides a comprehen. Read more...

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