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Focusing on the rehabilitation of criminals, this work contains a collection of essays looking at the effectiveness of this form of treatment and how to deal with juvenile delinquents. The book also examines programmes that work such as those with children and drug abusers.

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• Part 1 Attacking Rehabilitation
• What works? Questions and answers about prison reform
• Meta-analysis and the rehabilitation of punishment
• Treatment destruction techniques
• Part 2 Reaffirming Rehabilitation
• New findings, new views: a note of caution regarding sentencing reform
• Correctional effectiveness: the high cost of ignoring success
• Juvenile delinquency treatment: a mete-analytic inquiry into the viability of effects
• Early developmental prevention of juvenile delinquency
• Does correctional treatment work? A clinically relevant and psychologically informed meta-analysis
• Treatment for drug-abusing offenders under community supervision
• Part 3 Programs That Work
• A comparative evaluation of parent-training intervention for families of chronic delinquents
• The effect of functional family therapy for delinquents on adult criminal behavior
• Treatment and reintegration of violent juvenile offenders: experimental results
• Outcome evaluation of a prison therapeutic community for substance abuse treatment
• Part 4 The Limits of Control
• California's prison policy: causes, costs and consequences
• Intensive probation and parole
• Implementing pretrial drug-testing programs in 2 experimental sites: some deterrence and jail bed implications
• A comparison of recidivism of Florida's community control and prison: a 5-year survival analysis
• The impact of shock incarceration on technical violations and new criminal activities
• Part 5 The Future of Rehabilitation
• To punish and rehabilitate? Public attitudes toward 6 common crimes
• Intensive rehabilitation supervision: the next generation in community correction?
• Boys' disruptive behaviour, school adjustment and delinquency: the Montreal prevention experiment
• Index