Offender Rehabilitation in Practice

Gary A. Bernfeld is the editor of Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs, published by Wiley.David Philip Farrington OBE is a British criminologist, forensic psychologist, and emeritus professor of psychological criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow.Alan W. Leschied is the editor of Offender Rehabilitation in Practice: Implementing and Evaluating Effective Programs, published by Wiley.

• About the Editors. List of Contributors. Series Editors' Preface. Preface. INTRODUCTION. Implementation Issues (A. Leschied, et al.). PART I: KEY ISSUES IN CORRECTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS. What Works in Correctional Intervention? Evidence and PracticalImplications (J. McGuire). Evaluating the Economic Efficiency of Correctional InterventionPrograms (B. Welsh & D. Farrington). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Programs: Bridging theGap Between Research and Practice (F. Losel). PART II: IMPLEMENTING SPECIFIC PROGRAMS. A Multi-Level Perspective on the Implementation of MultisystemicTherapy (MST): Attempting Dissemination with Fidelity (D. Edwards,et al.). Aggression Replacement Training: Application and EvaluationManagement (A. Goldstein & B. Glick). In Search of Program Implementation: 792 Replications of theTeaching-Family Model (D. Fixsen, et al.). The Struggle for Treatment Integrity in a "dis-integrated" ServiceDelivery System (G. Bernfeld). "Straight Thinking on Probation": Evidence-based Practice and theCulture of Curiosity (P. Raynor & M. Vanstone). Designing, Implementing and Managing Treatment Programs for ViolentOffenders (R. Serin & D. Preston). PART III: IMPLEMENTING GENERAL PROGRAMS. Implementing Offender Classification Systems: Lessons Learned (J.Bonta, et al.). Implementation Guidelines for Correctional Programs in the "RealWorld" (P. Gendreau, et al.). The Role of the Consultant in Developing Effective CorrectionalPrograms (C. Hollin). Index.

"...For a reader interested in a broad and theoretical review...this book is to be recommended..." (Forensic Update, July 2002)