Rehabilitation

This comprehensive book reviews the main theories of rehabilitation models and advocates that rehabilitation should focus both on promoting human goods (i.e., providing the offender with the essential ingredients for a 'good' life) as well as reducing/avoiding risk.

Author: Tony Ward, Shadd Maruna
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/24/2007
Pages: 220
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.91h x 5.48w x 0.68d
ISBN: 9780415386425

About the Author

Tony Ward is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Clinical Director at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests include the offense process in offenders, cognitive distortions and models of rehabilitation. He has published over 190 research articles, chapters and books.

Shadd Maruna is a Reader in Criminology at Queen's University Belfast. Previously he has been a lecturer at the University of Cambridge and the State University of New York. His previous book, Making Good: How Ex-Convicts Reform and Rebuild Their Lives (2001) was named the Outstanding Contribution to Criminology by the American Society of Criminology in 2001.