Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 109.4: 769–817.
Measuring change: From rates of recidivism to markers of desistance. Accessible introduction that could be used as a text for an advanced undergraduate or graduate course. Introductory text outlining the history of the juvenile justice system, the etiology of juvenile delinquency and gang membership, and effective rehabilitative and prevention programming for juveniles. Preventing and reducing juvenile delinquency: A comprehensive framework. It focuses on how context matters for dictating the way in which we practice rehabilitation and penal punishment. This book traces the ideals of penal control through the history of the United States and Britain and ends by showing how new and current structures of everyday life have changed our control culture. The culture of control: Crime and social order in contemporary society. Presents a succinct methodological discussion of the challenges of program evaluation. Includes a detailed discussion of extant research on cognitive skills programming, drug treatment, educational and vocational services, and treatment for individuals convicted of a sexual offense. of Chicago Press.Ĭomprehensive analysis and summary of research on adult correctional treatment. Edited by Michael Tonry and Joan Petersilia, 361–426. In Crime and justice: A review of research. Includes numerous citations of relevant research an excellent bibliographic tool for researchers, students, and practitioners. Denotes principal elements of effective rehabilitation programs and describes model programs. Washington, DC: US Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice.Įxtensive, theoretically rich discussion of the history and practice of correctional treatment. 3, Policies, processes, and decisions of the criminal justice system. Assessing correctional rehabilitation: Policy, practice, and prospects” In Criminal justice 2000.
Results suggest that programs that deliver treatment to higher risk cases, target criminogenic needs, and match with client learning styles are most likely to achieve positive results.Ĭullen, Francis T., and Paul Gendreau. Meta-analysis of juvenile and adult correctional treatment programs administered over the past two decades.
Does correctional treatment work? A clinically relevant and psychologically informed meta-analysis. Hoge, James Bonta, Paul Gendreau, and Francis T. Research on rehabilitation is often measured using rates of recidivism however, Klingele 2019 suggests reasons why recidivism may be a poor metric for evaluating the success of rehabilitation and advocates for more nuanced metrics.Īndrews, D. A., Ivan Zinger, Robert D. The National Institute of Corrections provides a superb resource for local research studies. Much of the program evaluation literature is conducted on the local level. Most recently, researchers on behalf of the National Research Council detail the extant literature on institutional and community treatment for incarcerated persons ( National Research Council Committee on Community Supervision and Desistance from Crime 2008). Lipsey 1992 presents a similar analysis with juvenile incarcerated persons both works highlight the efficacy of cognitive programming. 1990 evaluates the components of effective treatment with adult incarcerated persons. Several meta-analyses have also been conducted that provide a statistical summary of the efficacy of treatment programs. 1999 presents a similar summary of best practices in correctional treatment, and describes some of the challenges in conducting evaluation studies of treatment programming.
Students interested in a general overview of treatment modalities for juvenile incarcerated persons should look to Howell 2008. MacKenzie 2006 provides an excellent description of model treatment and rehabilitation programs for juveniles and adults. More recently, researchers have focused on what works for individuals under specific circumstances. Cullen and Gendreau 2000 presents an excellent summary of the historical trends in treatment and describes the principal elements of modern treatment services. Although rehabilitation has always been a part of correctional programming, the “nothing works” conclusions of Martinson 1974, in combination with the distrust in the government associated with the 1970s, brought down the rehabilitative ideal that had gained prominence in the preceding decades (see Garland 2001 for details). As noted, the popularity of rehabilitative programs has varied over time.