Rethinking Corrections: Rehabilitation, Reentry, and Reintegration

This text explores the challenges that convicted offenders face over the course of the rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration process. Using an integrated, theoretical approach, each chapter is devoted to a corrections topic and incorporates original evidence-based concepts, research, and policy from experts in the field, and examines how correctional practices are being managed. Students are exposed to examples of both the successful attempts and the failures to reintegrate prisoners into the community, and they will be encouraged to consider how they can help influence future policy decisions as practitioners in the field.

A comprehensive overview of rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration,with real-life examples of successes and failures and the most current research

This text explores the challenges that convicted offenders face over the course of the rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration process. Using an integrated, theoretical approach, each chapter is devoted to a corrections topic and incorporates original evidence-based concepts, research, and policy from experts in the field, and examines how correctional practices are being managed. Students are exposed to examples of both the successful attempts and the failures to reintegrate prisoners into the community, and they will be encouraged to consider how they can help influence future policy decisions as practitioners in the field.

Key Features

• Comprehensive overview of the corrections process, starting with the beginning stages of incarceration-intake of risk and needs assessment-through to the release back into the community, unlike other texts
• A theoretical framework illustrates different types of rehabilitation models
• Thorough coverage of correctional practices and processes in each chapter, presented by an expert in that area
• Special interest boxes drawn from the direct experiences of both ex-offenders and practitioners to give students an informed view based on real-life experiences
• Policy Implications at the end of each chapter examine current policies for convicted offenders and include examples of successful rehabilitation and reentry programs
• Up-to-date research findings give both students and practitioners an overview of the current state of the field

Hung-En Sung was appointed associate professor at John Jay in 2006. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 and M.A. in 1993 from the U. at Albany, SUNY. In 2007 he was awarded both the Recognition for Outstanding Scholarly Achievements – The City University of NY and Faculty Scholarly Excellence Award from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He has served as a research associate for five years in the Division of Policy Research and Analysis at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. In the area of substance abuse policy, Professor Sung has researched on the therapeutic process and the outcomes of mandated drug abuse treatment, on the diversion and treatment of chronic offenders with co-occurring disorders, and the role of faith-based treatment in American society. His comparative research has revolved around the impact of democratization on political corruption and the administration of criminal justice. He has published extensively on these issues in many top journals. He authored The Fragmentation of Policing in American Cities (2002, Praeger) and is the co-editor of Crime and Punishment Around the World: Vol. 2 The Americas (Praeger).

Lior Gideon is full time faculty at the department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He was born in Israel, and served in the IDF for 3 years in active duty and for another 13 years in the reserve. He holds a bachelors degree in Sociology with concentration on organizational studies and mass communication, Masters in Sociology, Criminology, and Criminal Justice Administration, from Haifa University, in Israel, and Ph.D. in Criminology from the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem , Israel . Prior to joining John Jay, Dr. Gideon has completed two years post-doctoral fellowship with the Bureau of Governmental Research (BGR) at the University of Maryland. In his most recent research Dr. Gideon served as a project manager for an evaluation project on LSI-R and Proactive Community Supervision.