Synopses & Reviews
Should offenders be sentenced to punishments that are proportionate to the seriousness of their offences, or should they be sentenced in ways that help them to learn to offend less? This book reviews arguments and evidence on both sides and argues for a new understanding of rehabilitative penalties that aspires to both effectiveness and justice.
Synopsis
Can offenders be rehabilitated? Can this be done in ways that benefit the community as a whole, as well as offenders? This book explores the history, theory, practice and effectiveness of rehabilitation, examining how different beliefs about the value of rehabilitation have influenced criminal justice policy and practice.
About the Author
PETER RAYNOR is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Swansea University, UK. A former probation officer, his previous books include
Social Work, Justice and Control: Probation as an Alternative to Custody;
Effective Probation Practice (with M.Vanstone and D.Smith), and
Understanding Community Penalties (with M.Vanstone).
GWEN ROBINSON is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Sheffield University, UK, and carried out research on community penalties in Oxford and Swansea. Her publications include Victim-Offender Mediation: Limitations and Potential, and (with A.Bottoms and S.Rex) Alternatives to Prison.
Table of Contents
Defining Rehabilitation * Justifying Rehabilitation * Origins and Contexts * The Rehabilitative Ideal: Advance and Temporary Retreat * Adapting to the End of 'Treatment' * The New Rehabilitation: 'What Works' and Corrections at the End of the Twentieth Century * Against the Tide: Non-Treatment Paradigms for the Twenty-First Century * The Futures of Rehabilitation