The Prison Dilemma

To incarcerate or rehabilitate? - A controversial argument
2. revised and extended Auflage with the »Rehabilitation Agenda 2025« 2019
ISBN: 978-3-939816-64-5
Verlag: Nomen Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

THE GERMAN PRISON SYSTEM – a topic that interests politicians when elections are looming, and the media whenever scandal is involved – is expensive and largely ineffective: over half of the people released from prison re-offend within five years. Locking people up does not rehabilitate them. Instead, the influences of prison subculture prevail. Bernd Maelicke examines the causes of this dilemma, and highlights pathways to the successful social reintegration of offenders. With the »Rehabilitation Agenda 2025«, Bernd Maelicke outlines guidelines and an action plan for concrete and desperate improvement.

His credo:»Punishing people is easy, but usually leads nowhere. Showing people a better path and helping them navigate it is difficult, but it’s worth it.«

Zielgruppe

Politiker, Bewährungshelfer, Kriminologen, Gefängnisdirektoren

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maelicke, Bernd

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the international edition 11

Preface to the 2nd German edition 13

Prologue 17

I. Of pathways, both straight and winding 23
Turning Points (1) 23
Becoming a criminal 30
A perfectly normal procedure 37
Old walls, new ideas 54
From freedom to captivity 66
The objective of imprisonment: offender rehabilitation 71
Serving sentence in the regular enforcement regime 81
Release and rehabilitation 116

II. In search of something better than imprisonment 137
Turning points (2) 138

III. Schleswig-Holstein, the model experiment 161

IV. To incarcerate or rehabilitate? 189

V. Perspectives 227

VI. Offender Rehabilitation Agenda 2025: towards evidencebased and outcome-oriented criminal justice and social

policy 259
Action Plan 263

Literature 265

Über Autor(innen)

PROF. DR. BERND MAELICKE,
born in 1941, is one of Germany’s bestknown crime and social policy experts.From 1978 to 1990, he was director of the
renowned Institute for Social Work and Social Education (ISS) in Frankfurt am Main. As undersecretary in the Ministry of Justice of Schleswig-Holstein from 1990 to 2005, he steered reform and development in the state system of custodial and non-custodial services. Since 2005, he has been founding director of the German Institute for Social Economy (DISW) in Lüneburg.
He has published innovative concepts for the rehabilitation of offenders and the protection of victims in numerous articles
and books.