PETER RAYNOR is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the University of Wales, Swansea, UK. A former probation officer, his previous books include Social Work, Justice and Control: Probation as an Alternative to Custody; Effective Probation Practice (with M.Vanstone and D.Smith), and Understanding Community Penalties (with M.Vanstone). GWEN ROBINSON is Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at Sheffield University, UK, and carried out research on community penalties in Oxford and Swansea. Her publications include Victim-Offender Mediation: Limita

• Defining Rehabilitation Justifying Rehabilitation Origins and Contexts The Rehabilitative Ideal: Advance and Temporary Retreat Adapting to the End of 'Treatment' The New Rehabilitation: 'What Works' and Corrections at the End of the Twentieth Century Against the Tide: Non-Treatment Paradigms for the Twenty-First Century The Futures of Rehabilitation

'A valuable addition to the literature the author is a recognized authority in his field and highly regarded. There are very few academics in Britain who could write such a book.' - Professor David Smith, Applied Social Sciences, Lancaster University, UK '...the best available review on the social history, current status, and possible future of rehabilitation...it is a concise and accessible conduit for getting readers up to speed about the complex issues involved in whether rehabilitation should serve as a guiding theory of corrections.' - Francis T. Cullen, Punishment and Society, 14 (1), 2012