This study identifies positive psychology concepts and interventions in an offender rehabilitation program in South Africa. The concepts and interventions are cross-referenced to the literature and are found to conform to the principles of the good lives-desistance model (Laws & Ward, 2011). The study uses inductive thematic analysis (Braun…

This paper examines schooling inside a youth prison. We draw on interview and observation data from a study of a youth prison school to understand the practices and tensions of schooling in a juvenile incarceration facility. We describe the processes of schooling in the facility with an eye towards understanding both the conditions of learning and…

For the past three years, the Manpower Administration has funded an experimental program called Mutual Agreement Planning (MAP). In this program, prisoners and authorities agree in a written contract exactly what the individual must do in order to be paroled. (Author/HMV)

As part of a Phase 1 evaluation study of the Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime (TASC) program, The Lazar Institute visited ten TASC projects, including the one in Miami, Florida. Results of this stage of the study have been provided to LEAA's National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice in three volumes. The materials in those…

This report, submitted as an appeal for continuation of funds, summarizes the achievements of the Miami Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime (TASC) project. The project is designed to identify drug-abusing arrestees and divert them to either jail treatment or one of the Miami community's drug treatment programs. Included in this report are cost…

In May 1974, Fresno County's Narcotic Abuse Treatment Program began a 21-day outpatient methadone detoxification treatment modality. The purpose of this paper is to examine this alternative treatment modality, its characteristics, its therapeutic outcomes and the rationale for its use. (Author)

The rising costs and diminishing returns of Her Majesty's prisons prompted the British government to set up a committee on "Non-custodial and Semi-custodial Treatment of Offenders." One of its central recommendations was the introduction of community service as a constructive alternative to imprisonment. (Author)

Describes the Positive Approaches for Sex Offenders (PASO) program which attempts to provide a treatment alternative to incarceration for sex offenders. (Author)

The rehabilitation process at the California Institution for Women at Frontera is discussed, especially in relation to the Chicana inmate. (NQ)

The Garden State School District, the agency responsible for correctional education programs in New Jersey, has attempted to eliminate the urban-prison syndrome through implementation of the Continuous Assessment Programs. This program is designed to ameliorate negative effects of urban life by giving each inmate an individuality and purpose.…

In addition to providing a detailed description of the method in which the Des Moines project operates, this handbook explores the key elements in a community-based corrections approach. It presents evaluation data, describes the experience of several communities which undertook to replicate this approach, and discusses the process by which other…

Shows that a Rehabilitative Planning Services Unit can provide invaluable assistance to a Public Defender's Office and enhance the quality of representation provided to indigent defendants. Such a unit could prove to be essential, particularly in situations where the defendant is ineligible for Pretrial diversion programs. (Author)

Describes goals of the Robert F. Kennedy Youth Center (KYC) and the philosophical stance and the implementation of that philosophy within the center. Issues discussed range from administrative structure through descriptions of inmate classification and treatment. Educational and vocational programs as well as the token economy systems are…

The Maryland Division of Correction has implemented an innovative program that permits correctional officers to combine counseling case-management functions with their custory functions. Basically, the program relies on the quality of individual programming that results from the close personal, working relationship developed between officer and…

Some rehabilitative programs can reduce recidivism and justify the time, money, and effort required to sustain them. Youth programs, such as diversion, probation, group counseling, and academic and vocational education efforts, with documented successes, are described, as well as educational and vocatonal programs that have been successful with…