Overview
- Offers analyses of critical issues facing prisoners upon reentry to society
- Provides the most up-to-date evidence regarding prisoner reentry program effectiveness
- Illustrates prisoner reentry from the perspective of a service provider
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This book addresses the core issues in prisoner reentry into society after incarceration. The chapters are written by academic scholars who have much experience researching and writing about prisoner reentry and by people who work in the field of prison reentry. Comprising reviews of empirical literature, this study is also supplemented by the workings of a reentry agency in the state of California. The focus of the work is to provide the best practices within prisoner reentry programs, to explore the barriers experienced by both prisoners and reentry agencies as they work toward the reentry of prisoners, and to discuss critical issues associated with prisoner reentry.
The authors broach various topics regarding life after imprisonment, such as: the financial burden, problems faced by sex offenders, changing family dynamics and employment. An engaging and thought-provoking study, this book will beof particular interest to scholars of criminology theory, the justice system and sociology.
The authors broach various topics regarding life after imprisonment, such as: the financial burden, problems faced by sex offenders, changing family dynamics and employment. An engaging and thought-provoking study, this book will beof particular interest to scholars of criminology theory, the justice system and sociology.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Stan Stojkovic is Dean and Professor of Criminal Justice in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. He has been studying correctional practices for over 30 years and has worked with numerous police and correctional agencies across the country as well as with the United Nations addressing the topic of effective prison leadership.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prisoner Reentry
Book Subtitle: Critical Issues and Policy Directions
Editors: Stan Stojkovic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57929-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57928-7Published: 07 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57929-4Published: 06 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 346
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Critical Criminology, Crime and Society, Criminological Theory, Policing