The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its Impact on Parole
There and Back Again in California
- 184 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how, on a legislative and policy level, the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems. The book explores what rehabilitation is by investigating how, at different moments in time, its conceptualization has shaped, and been shaped by, shifting norms, practices, and institutions of corrections in California. The author calls for a rethinking of theoretical understandings of the corrections system, generally, and parole system, specifically, and calls for an expansion in the questions asked in reintegration studies. The book is designed for scholars seeking to better understand the relationship between correctional systems and rehabilitation and the full scope of rehabilitation as a legislative goal, and is also suitable for use as teaching tool for historical, textual, and interviewing methods.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Building a Parole Bureaucracy: Inception to 1930s
- 2 The Rise of the Rehabilitative Ideal: 1940s to Mid-1970s
- 3 The Fall of Rehabilitation: 1970s to 1990s
- 4 Re-Emergence of Rehabilitation: 2000 to 2005
- 5 Correcting Corrections: 2005 to Present
- Conclusion
- Appendix: On Methods
- References
- Index