NCJ Number
86047
Journal
Journal of Offender Counseling Services and Rehabilitation Volume: 6 Issue: 1 and 2 Dated: (Fall/Winter 1981) Pages: complete issue
Editor(s)
S Chaneles
Date Published
1982
Length
139 pages
Annotation
This volume of articles examines the successes and failures of correctional rehabilitation programs, including such social programs as substance abuse therapy, educational programs, and first-offender therapy.
Abstract
Major topics addressed include the inmate's right to health care, sentencing offenders to therapy, structured learning therapy with mentally ill criminal offenders, rehabilitation through education, and group assertive training in the correctional setting. Also discussed are social programs and correctional control in a maximum security environment, social structure and psychodrama, the use of volunteers in corrections, and short-term treatment groups with adjudicated first-offender shoplifters. The volume emphasizes the view that prisoners should be afforded an opportunity to preserve a sense of personal dignity. The most important court decisions addressing this issue have deemed rehabilitation programs essential to the prisoner's constitutionally protected right to preserve this dignity. Notes and references are included with each selection. For individual articles, see NCJ 86048-56.