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Treating the criminal offender /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Alexander B., 1909-2004
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Berlin, Louis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Press, [1988]
Edition:Third edition.
Series:Criminal justice and public safety.
Subjects:
Criminals > Rehabilitation > United States.
Social work with criminals > United States.
Corrections > United States.
Réhabilitation > États-Unis.
Service social aux criminels > États-Unis.
Services correctionnels > États-Unis.
Corrections.
Criminals > Rehabilitation.
Social work with criminals.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Background
  • Crime, social attitudes, and causation theories
  • Probation and parole
  • Punishment versus treatment
  • Problems and issues in corrections
  • General treatment approaches
  • Treatment modalities: Problems and issues
  • Schools of casework and therapy
  • Group therapies: Traditional and innovative
  • Specific treatment approaches
  • Drug addiction, crime, and treatment
  • Sexual offenses and their treatment
  • The violent offender
  • Alcoholism and crime
  • Crime and marital problems, and the female offender
  • Gambling, white-collar crime, and organized crime
  • New directions
  • Current trends in corrections
  • Research in corrections
  • Summary and sources
  • Index.