Resources for Educators of Adults - Annotated Bibliography for the Education of Public Offenders - By Descriptive Subject Headings

• NCJ Number: 84812
• Author(s): M J Willis
• Date Published: 1978
• Length: 252 pages
• Sale Source: Eric Document Reproduction Service; Not Available Through National Institute of Justice/NCJRS Document Loan Program
• Publication Type: Bibliography
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

This bibliography is presented to assist educators who are engaged in research activities with inmate or ex-inmate populations.

Abstract

The first part contains entries under descriptive subject headings (alphabetically by author); the second part contains abstracts of the material listed in part 1 (alphabetically by title). The descriptive headings include (1) agencies -- parole and probation; (2) communications -- community relations, programs, involvement, and action with corrections; (3) counseling -attitudes, motivation, personality, self-concept, psychological scales and tests, and therapy; (4) futures -- attitudes, reform, treatment; (5) history -correctional; (6) resources -- library services to inmates; (7) legislation; (8) lifelong learning -- education, professionals in corrections, ex-inmate higher education, inmate higher education, in-faculty adult basic education, vocational education, and information; (9) programs -- educational and work release programs from prison to the community; (10) research -- criminal behavior, chemical abuse (drug treatment), alcohol, juvenile delinquency, mentally retarded in correctional facilities, recidivism, and women in prison; and (11) trends -- alternative models and volunteers in corrections (inmate and civilian). (CSS) (Resources in Education (ERIC) abstract)