Reform in the Making

Ann Chih Lin is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the University of Michigan. With Sheldon Danziger, she is the coeditor of "The Social Contexts of Urban Poverty: Qualitative Research on the African-American Experience".

• List of Tables ix Acknowledgments Xi Introduction "This Place Just by Being Here Is Not Going to Correct You": The Rediscovery of Rehabilitation 3 1. Revisiting Rehabilitation: Why "What Works" Is the Wrong Question 15 2. Keeping the Peace: Institutional Needs, Institutional Values, and Implementation 33 3. Unsuccessful Implementation: The Use and Abuse of Programs 60 4. Successful Implementation: Keeping Busy and Helping Yourself 98 5. The Importance of Successful Implementation: Recasting the Debate over Mandatory and Voluntary Programs 129 Conclusion Deliberately Successful Implementation: Doing Time, Doing My Time, and Letting the Time Do Me 160 Appendix 1 Research Design Meets Prison Administration: Methodological Notes 175 Appendix 2 On Being Who You Are: Credibility, Bias, and Good Research 186 Bibliography 195 Index 207

"An important and convincing book... A welcome addition to the literature on both the implementation of social policy and the study of prisons... Thoughtful and well-conceived."--Malcolm M. Feeley, Law and Politics Book Review "Lin's acceptance of the problem of any general rehabilitative program in prison is her strong point, and the great value of this book. Putting grand theory behind helps to point the way out of the miasma and double-bind of prison life."--Larry E. Sullivan, Contemporary Sociology