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The issue of resettling ex-prisoners and ex-offenders into the
community has become an increasingly important one on both sides of
the Atlantic. In the USA the former Attorney General Janet Reno
identified the issue as 'one of the most pressing problems we face
as a nation' in view of the massive prison population and the rapid
increase in rates of incarceration, while in the UK it has become
an increasingly important issue for similar reasons, and the
subject of recent reports by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and HM
Inspectorate of Probation, as well as from the Social Exclusion
Unit of the Home Office. Yet this issue has not been well served by
the criminological literature, and the new policies and programmes
that have been set up to address the problem have not been well
grounded in criminological thinking. This book seeks to address the
important set of issues involved by bringing together the best of
recent thinking and research into desistance from crime, drawing
upon research in both the UK and the USA, and with a distinct focus
on how this might impact upon the design and implementation of
ex-offender reintegration policy.
The issue of resettling ex-prisoners and ex-offenders into the
community has become an increasingly important one on both sides of
the Atlantic. In the USA the former Attorney General Janet Reno
identified the issue as 'one of the most pressing problems we face
as a nation' in view of the massive prison population and the rapid
increase in rates of incarceration, while in the UK it has become
an increasingly important issue for similar reasons, and the
subject of recent reports by HM Inspectorate of Prisons and HM
Inspectorate of Probation, as well as from the Social Exclusion
Unit of the Home Office. Yet this issue has not been well served by
the criminological literature, and the new policies and programmes
that have been set up to address the problem have not been well
grounded in criminological thinking. This book seeks to address the
important set of issues involved by bringing together the best of
recent thinking and research into desistance from crime, drawing
upon research in both the UK and the USA, and with a distinct focus
on how this might impact upon the design and implementation of
ex-offender reintegration policy.
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