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Typical offender risk factors include a history of antisocial
behavior, an antisocial personality, antisocial cognition,
antisocial associates, family and/or marital problems, school or
work problems, leisure or recreation problems, and substance abuse.
Though there are roughly 66 risk assessment instruments that
measure these factors, only 19 of them are in wide use. Of these
tools, micro-level and personal factors are included on typical
risk instruments while external or macro-level matters are not.
Community Risk and Protective Factors for Probation and Parole Risk
Assessment Tools: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an
essential research publication that explores tools for predicting
recidivism rates among incarcerated individuals. The study provides
evidence for an alternative explanation for a still prevailing
notion that recidivism is primarily a result of personal/internal
failings (such as mental illness or cognitive impairment) versus
external/societal ones. Featuring a wide range of topics such as
affordable housing, policy reform, and adult education, this book
is ideal for criminologists, sociologists, law enforcement,
corrections officers, wardens, therapists, rehabilitation
counselors, researchers, policymakers, criminal justice
professionals, academicians, and students.
The discipline of adult education has been vastly discussed and
optimized over the years. Despite this, certain niches in this
area, such as correctional education, remain under-researched and
under-developed. Strategic Learning Ideologies in Prison Education
Programs is a pivotal reference source that encompasses a range of
research perspectives on the education of inmates in correctional
facilities. Highlighting a range of international discussions on
topics such as rehabilitation programs, vocational training, and
curriculum development, this book is ideally designed for
educators, professionals, academics, students, and practitioners
interested in emerging developments within prison education
programs.
In many jurisdictions today, life imprisonment is the most severe
penalty that can be imposed. Despite this, it is a relatively
under-researched form of punishment and no meaningful attempt has
been made to understand its full human rights implications. This
important collection fills that gap by addressing these two key
questions: what is life imprisonment and what human rights are
relevant to it? These questions are explored from the perspective
of a range of jurisdictions, in essays that draw on both empirical
and doctrinal research. Under the editorship of two leading
scholars in the field, this innovative and important work will be a
landmark publication in the field of penal studies and human
rights.
Intellectual disabilities have long been a concern for both
practitioners and academics alike. With the introduction and
advocacy of concepts to the public in recent decades, and the
normalization and valorization of intellectual disabilities,
humanistic concern has become the dominant trend in providing
interventions and services for people with these issues.Today,
various ideas for societal inclusion of those with intellectual
disabilities have been introduced. However, many practitioners and
academics have criticized these ideas as idealistic, and in many
ways, inapplicable for actual social inclusion of people with
intellectual disabilities.The situation is particularly serious
regarding those intellectually disabled individuals presenting
various forms of self-harm, aggression, disturbing behaviors, and
emotional fluctuation (SADE: S =Self harm, A = Aggression, D =
Disturbing behaviors, E = Emotional fluctuation). In many
instances, social exclusion, labelling, punishments, deprivation of
rights, physical restraints, as well as psychiatric medications are
commonly used in controlling intellectual disabled clients with
SADE.A thorough understanding of intellectually disabled clients
has revealed that their self-harm, aggression, disturbing
behaviors, and emotional fluctuations (SADE) are closely related to
their unfulfilled needs, developmental traumas, abuse, neglect, and
abandonment in their lives. These individuals have problems in
expressing their views and emotions, as well as having severe
attachment needs.Based on the writers substantial experience,
clinical practice, and supervision in working with intellectual
disabled clients with SADE, this book is the first to formulate and
consolidate the communication, emotionality, intimacy, and trauma
based interpretation and intervention for intellectually disabled
clients with SADE. This book provides methods for effective,
humanistic, normalized, and integrated recovery of these
individuals.
A groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the
Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose
France's inhumane treatment of prisoners Founded by Michel Foucault
and others in 1970-71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP)
circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the
French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first
time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced
by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an
exclusive new interview with GIP member Helene Cixous and writings
by Gilles Deleuze and Jean Genet. These archival documents-public
announcements, manifestos, reports, pamphlets, interventions, press
conference statements, interviews, and round table
discussions-trace the GIP's establishment in post-1968 political
turmoil, the new models of social activism it pioneered, the prison
revolts it supported across France, and the retrospective
assessments that followed its denouement. At the same time,
Intolerable offers a rich, concrete exploration of Foucault's
concept of resistance, providing a new understanding of the arc of
his intellectual development and the genesis of his most
influential book, Discipline and Punish. Presenting the account of
France's most vibrant prison resistance movement in its own words
and on its own terms, this significant and relevant collection also
connects the approach and activities of the GIP to radical prison
resistance movements today.
The problem of justifying legal punishment has been at the heart
of legal and social philosophy from the very earliest recorded
philosophical texts. However, despite several hundred years of
debate, philosophers have not reached agreement about how legal
punishment can be morally justified. That is the central issue
addressed by the contributors to this volume. All of the essays
collected here have been published in the highly respected journal
"Philosophy & Public Affairs." Taken together, they offer not
only significant proposals for improving established theories of
punishment and compelling arguments against long-held positions,
but also ori-ginal and important answers to the question, "How is
punishment to be justified?"
Part I of this collection, "Justifications of Punishment,"
examines how any practice of punishment can be morally justified.
Contributors include Jeffrie G. Murphy, Alan H. Goldman, Warren
Quinn, C. S. Nino, and Jean Hampton. The papers in Part II,
"Problems of Punishment," address more specific issues arising in
established theories. The authors are Martha C. Nussbaum, Michael
Davis, and A. John Simmons. In the final section, "Capital
Punishment," contributors discuss the justifiability of capital
punishment, one of the most debated philosophical topics of this
century. Essayists include David A. Conway, Jeffrey H. Reiman,
Stephen Nathanson, and Ernest van den Haag.
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