The meaning of rehabilitation and its impact on parole: There and back again in California

Document Type

Book

Publication Date

2017

Department/School

Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology

Abstract

This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how, on a legislative and policy level, the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems. The book explores what rehabilitation is by investigating how, at different moments in time, its conceptualization has shaped, and been shaped by, shifting norms, practices, and institutions of corrections in California. The author calls for a rethinking of theoretical understandings of the corrections system, generally, and parole system, specifically, and calls for an expansion in the questions asked in reintegration studies. The book is designed for scholars seeking to better understand the relationship between correctional systems and rehabilitation and the full scope of rehabilitation as a legislative goal, and is also suitable for use as teaching tool for historical, textual, and interviewing methods.

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R. Shah is a faculty member in EMU's Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology.

This book was featured at EMU's 2018 Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity Showcase.

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