Documented evidence suggests that community safety is best achievedthrough policies promoting human services rather than relyingtotally on prisons and that promoting intervention in anindividual's own environment (known as 'ecological integrity') isclosely associated with effective intervention. This is the first book to focus on the transfer of knowledge ofworldwide effective offender rehabilitation programs. Prominentresearchers and practitioners in the criminal justice field havecontributed their extensive knowledge of what it takes to implementeffective correctional practices with ecological integrity. * Reviews real world challenges of program effectiveness andsurvival * Offers effective, evidence based, innovative alternatives toimprisonment of offenders * Offers a common multi-level systems perspective as a frameworkfor the international case studies featured * The first book to focus on the transfer of knowledge and bestpractice through the concept of technology transfer
About the Editors. List of Contributors. Series Editors' Preface. Preface. INTRODUCTION. Implementation Issues (A. Leschied, et al.). PART I: KEY ISSUES IN CORRECTIONAL EFFECTIVENESS. What Works in Correctional Intervention? Evidence and Practical Implications (J. McGuire). Evaluating the Economic Efficiency of Correctional Intervention Programs (B. Welsh & D. Farrington). Evaluating the Effectiveness of Correctional Programs: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice (F. Losel). PART II: IMPLEMENTING SPECIFIC PROGRAMS. A Multi-Level Perspective on the Implementation of Multisystemic Therapy (MST): Attempting Dissemination with Fidelity (D. Edwards, et al.). Aggression Replacement Training: Application and Evaluation Management (A. Goldstein & B. Glick). In Search of Program Implementation: 792 Replications of the Teaching-Family Model (D. Fixsen, et al.). The Struggle for Treatment Integrity in a dis-integrated Service Delivery System (G. Bernfeld). Straight Thinking on Probation : Evidence-based Practice and the Culture of Curiosity (P. Raynor & M. Vanstone). Designing, Implementing and Managing Treatment Programs for Violent Offenders (R. Serin & D. Preston). PART III: IMPLEMENTING GENERAL PROGRAMS. Implementing Offender Classification Systems: Lessons Learned (J. Bonta, et al.). Implementation Guidelines for Correctional Programs in the Real World (P. Gendreau, et al.). The Role of the Consultant in Developing Effective Correctional Programs (C. Hollin). Index.
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