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Reform in the Making: The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison
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Reform in the Making: The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison Hardback - 2000

by Ann Chih Lin

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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 in-depth 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.

Based on extensive observation and over 350 interviews with staff and prisoners in five medium-security male prisons, the book contrasts successfully implemented programs with subverted, abandoned, or neglected programs (those which staff reject or which do not teach prisoners anything useful). Lin explains that staff and prisoners have little patience with programs aimed at long-range goals when they must face the ongoing, immediate challenge of surviving prison life. Finding incentives to make both sides participate fully in rehabilitation is among the book's many contributions to improving prison policy.

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  • Title Reform in the Making: The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison
  • Author Ann Chih Lin
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 232
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
  • Publication date April 17, 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780691009841 / 0691009848
  • Weight 1.06 lbs (0.48 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.82 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.08 cm)
  • Reading level 1300
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99045173
  • Dewey Decimal Code 365.709

About the author

Ann Chih Lin is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of Michigan. With Sheldon Danziger, she is the coeditor of The Social Contexts of Urban Poverty: Qualitative Research on the African-American Experience.

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