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Crime and employment : critical issues in crime reduction for corrections / edited by Jessie L Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ex-convicts--Employment--United States.
- Ex-convicts.
- Criminals--Rehabilitation--United States.
- Criminals.
- Criminals--Rehabilitation.
- Ex-convicts--Employment.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Walnut Creek, CA : AltaMira Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- Crime and Employment crystallizes the issue of work as a rehabilitative instrument in the modern correctional environment. Contributors explore the effect of employment on crime and recidivism, with its implications for correctional programs and operations as well as for ex-offender reintegration into the community. This book will be of great value to practitioners and policymakers corrections, criminal justice, criminology, social problems, labor policy, social welfare, deviance and social control.
- Contents:
- Foreword: the correctional dilemma: employment and social integration / Jess Maghan
- Preface
- Pre-imprisonment employment: introduction
- Behind the practioner's desk: prosecutors, jobs and crime / Douglas S. Weiner
- The employment status dichotomy: understanding what this means and using it for your advantage in program development / Adam M. Bossler
- Economic rehabilitation: a reassessment of the link between employment and crime / Jessie L. Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher
- Prison industries: introduction
- Behind the practioner's desk: something to lose: a balanced and reality-based rationale for institutional programming / Peter M. Carlson
- The effect of prison industry and vocational training on post release outcome: does race matter? / William G. Saylor Gerald G. Gaes
- Employment and crime: what is the problem and what can be done about it from the inmate's perspective? / Martha L. Henderson
- Ex-offenders: introduction
- Behind the practioner's desk: Illinois criminal justice information authority / Candice M. Kane
- Jabbing blow, pitching rocks, and stacking paper: how drug-selling street gangs organize the reentry of male ex-convicts into the community / Gregory S. Scott
- Work as a turning point for criminal offenders / Christopher Uggen and Jeremy Staff
- In the community: introduction
- Behind the practioner's desk: opportunity provision in the context of merging science and community-based best practice / Daniel J. Flannery
- Finding ways to get paid: social networks and illegitimate work / Norman A. White
- Drug selling: a rational choice / Mark S. Fleisher and Jessie L. Krienert.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0759104042
- 0759104050
- OCLC:
- 52334908
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