Lin Reform in the Making

The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2367-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Ann Chih Lin is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of Michigan. With Sheldon Danziger, she is the coeditor of The Social Contexts of Urban Poverty: Qualitative Research on the African-American Experience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lin, Ann Chih

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables ix

Acknowledgments Xi

Introduction "This Place Just by Being Here Is Not Going to Correct You": The Rediscovery of Rehabilitation 3

1. Revisiting Rehabilitation: Why "What Works" Is the Wrong Question 15

2. Keeping the Peace: Institutional Needs, Institutional Values, and Implementation 33

3. Unsuccessful Implementation: The Use and Abuse of Programs 60

4. Successful Implementation: Keeping Busy and Helping Yourself 98

5. The Importance of Successful Implementation: Recasting the Debate over Mandatory and Voluntary Programs 129

Conclusion Deliberately Successful Implementation: Doing Time, Doing My Time, and Letting the Time Do Me 160

Appendix 1 Research Design Meets Prison Administration: Methodological Notes 175

Appendix 2 On Being Who You Are: Credibility, Bias, and Good Research 186

Bibliography 195

Index 207

Über Autor(innen)

Ann Chih Lin is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of Michigan. With Sheldon Danziger, she is the coeditor of The Social Contexts of Urban Poverty: Qualitative Research on the African-American Experience.