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This text explores the challenges that convicted offenders face over the course of the rehabilitation, reentry, and reintegration process. Using an integrated, theoretical approach, each chapter is devoted to a corrections topic and incorporates original evidence-based concepts, research, and policy from experts in the field, and examines how correctional practices are being managed. Students are exposed to examples of both the successful attempts and the failures to reintegrate prisoners into the community, and they will be encouraged to consider how they can help influence future policy decisions as practitioners in the field.
Faith-Based Prisoner Reentry
Faith-Based Prisoner Reentry
More than 2 million Americans are incarcerated in state and federal prisons. It is estimated that on any given day, at the turn of the century, one out of every 200 Americans was incarcerated. By the end of 2007, an estimated 7.3 million people were incarcerated, on probation, or on parole, equivalent to 1 in every 31 U.S. adult residents. Increasing numbers of ex-offenders (about 97% of those incarcerated)—more now than at any other time in our history—are leaving prisons across the country to return to their families and communities. In 2008, more than 700,000 people will be released from state and federal prisons throughout the nation, a fourfold increase over the past two decades. Another 10 million will ...
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