Offender Rehabilitation in Practice Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs

by Bernfeld, Gary A.; Farrington, David P.; Leschied, Alan W.

• ISBN13: 9780471720263
• ISBN10: 0471720267
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-30
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Documented evidence suggests that community safety is best achieved through policies promoting human services rather than relying totally on prisons and that promoting intervention in an individual's own environment (known as 'ecological integrity') is closely associated with effective intervention. This is the first book to focus on the transfer of knowledge of worldwide effective offender rehabilitation programs. Prominent researchers and practitioners in the criminal justice field have contributed their extensive knowledge of what it takes to implement effective correctional practices with ecological integrity. Reviews "real world" challenges of program effectiveness and survival Offers effective, evidence based, innovative alternatives to imprisonment of offenders Offers a common multi-level systems perspective as a framework for the international case studies featured The first book to focus on the transfer of knowledge and best practice through the concept of "technology transfer"

Author Biography

Gary A. Bernfeld is the editor of Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs, published by Wiley.

David Philip Farrington OBE is a British criminologist, forensic psychologist, and emeritus professor of psychological criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow.

Alan W. Leschied is the editor of Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

About the editors	ix
List of contributors	xi
Series Editors' Preface	xv
Preface	xix
Introduction
Implementation issues	3	(22)
Alan Leschied
Gary Bernfeld
David P. Farrington
PART I: KEY ISSUES IN CORRECTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
What works in correctional intervention? Evidence and practical implications	25	(20)
James McGuire
Evaluating the economic efficiency of correctional intervention programs	45	(22)
Brandon C.
Welsh
David P. Farrington
Evaluating the effectiveness of correctional programs: bridging the gap between research and practice	67	(30)
Friedrich Losel
PART II: IMPLEMENTING SPECIFIC PROGRAMS
A multi-level perspective on the implementation of multisystemic therapy (MST): attempting dissemination with fidelity	97	(24)
Daniel L. Edwards
Sonja K. Schoenwald
Scott W. Henggeler
Keller B. Strother
Aggression replacement training: application and evaluation management	121	(28)
Arnold P. Goldstein
Barry Glick
In search of program implementation: 792 replications of the Teaching-Family Model	149	(18)
Dean L. Fixsen
Karen A. Blase
Gary D. Timbers
Montrose M. Wolf
The struggle for treatment integrity in a ``dis-integrated'' service delivery system	167	(22)
Gary A. Bernfeld
``Straight thinking on probation'': evidence-based practice and the culture of curiosity	189	(16)
Peter Raynor
Maurice Vanstone
Designing, implementing and managing treatment programs for violent offenders	205	(22)
Ralph C. Serin
Denise L. Preston
PART III: IMPLEMENTING GENERAL PROGRAMS
Implementing offender classification systems: lessons learned	227	(20)
James Bonta
Brad Bogue
Michael Crowley
Laurence Motiuk
Implementation guidelines for correctional programs in the ``real world''	247	(22)
Paul Gendreau
Claire Goggin
Paula Smith
The role of the consultant in developing effective correctional programs	269	(14)
Clive R. Hollin
Index	283