Crime and employment: critical issues in crime reduction for corrections

Foreword: the correctional dilemma: employment and social integration / Jess Maghan -- Preface -- Pre-imprisonment employment: introduction -- Behind the practioner's desk: prosecutors, jobs and crime / Douglas S. Weiner -- The employment status dichotomy: understanding what this means and usin...

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Contributors: Krienert, Jessie L. (Editor) ; Fleisher, Mark S. (Other) ; Krienert, Jessie Lyn (Other) ; Krienert, Jessie L. 1974-
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Walnut Creek, Calif. [u.a.] AltaMira Press c 2004
In:Year: 2004
Online Access: Inhaltsverzeichnis (Verlag)
Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
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Summary:Foreword: the correctional dilemma: employment and social integration / Jess Maghan -- Preface -- Pre-imprisonment employment: introduction -- Behind the practioner's desk: prosecutors, jobs and crime / Douglas S. Weiner -- The employment status dichotomy: understanding what this means and using it for your advantage in program development / Adam M. Bossler -- Economic rehabilitation: a reassessment of the link between employment and crime / Jessie L. Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher -- Prison industries: introduction -- Behind the practioner's desk: something to lose: a balanced and reality-based rationale for institutional programming / Peter M. Carlson -- The effect of prison industry and vocational training on post release outcome: does race matter? / William G. Saylor Gerald G. Gaes -- Employment and crime: what is the problem and what can be done about it from the inmate's perspective? / Martha L. Henderson -- Ex-offenders: introduction -- Behind the practioner's desk: Illinois criminal justice information authority / Candice M. Kane -- Jabbing blow, pitching rocks, and stacking paper: how drug-selling street gangs organize the reentry of male ex-convicts into the community / Gregory S. Scott -- Work as a turning point for criminal offenders / Christopher Uggen and Jeremy Staff -- In the community: introduction -- Behind the practioner's desk: opportunity provision in the context of merging science and community-based best practice / Daniel J. Flannery -- Finding ways to get paid: social networks and illegitimate work / Norman A. White -- Drug selling: a rational choice / Mark S. Fleisher and Jessie L. Krienert
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:XVIII, 218 S graph. Darst 24 cm
ISBN:0759104042
0759104050