Charles B. A. Ubah

Offender Rehabilitation Issues

Critical Lessons for Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Policy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses a critical approach to understand the issues and questions about offender rehabilitation within the 21st century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781666922790
• ISBN-10: 166692279X
• Artikelnr.: 67993352

Autorenporträt

Charles B. A. Ubah is professor of criminology, criminal justice, law, sociology and public policy at Georgia College and State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Focal Issues of Offender Rehabilitation
Chapter 2: Individual Change Perspectives of Offender Rehabilitation
Chapter 3: Pessimistic Reaction to Individual Change: Perspectives of
Offender Rehabilitation
Chapter 4: A Critical Examination of Empirical Evidence of Offender
Rehabilitation-Correctional Education
Chapter 5: Reaffirming the Limits of Offender Rehabilitation but With
Caution
Chapter 6: Using Recidivism Rate as the Sole Indicator of Prison-Based
Rehabilitation Usefulness
Chapter 7: The History of Pell Grants for Prison Inmates College Education
Chapter 8: Abolition of Pell Grants for Higher Education of Prisoners
Chapter 9: Second Chance Act and Second Chance Pell Pilot Program: The End
of Abolition of Pell Grants for Prisoners Education
Chapter 10: Limitation, Direction for Future Research, and Conclusion
References
About the Author