Offenders or Citizens?: Readings in Rehabilitation by Philip Priestley,Maurice Vanstone
By Philip Priestley,Maurice Vanstone
The punitive criminal presently dominates the perform of Anglo-American legal justice, stigmatising its sufferers as perpetual 'offenders' and failing to alter a majority of them for the higher. Books of educational 'readings' occasionally profess neutrality over the controversies they invigilate. Offenders or Citizens? sits on no such fences, its pages replicate the fiercely partisan nature of the competition among rehabilitation and punishment. Probation, social paintings, adolescence justice, legislation, corrections, criminology, journalism, philosophy, politics, pop culture, psychology, anthropology, and sociology – the voices of individuals, execs, and writers from many geographical regions are all represented during this energetic choice. Its target - to stimulate and provide a debate concerning the right position of rehabilitation inside of a plural, morally defensible, and potent reaction to crime.
This ebook might be crucial analyzing for either scholars and practitioners inside legal justice, who've an curiosity within the rehabilitation of convicted contributors, and delivering an important broader context to the 'what works' debate.
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