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## Defining Rehabilitation No idea is more pervaded with ambiguity than the notion of reform or rehabilitation. - Allen (1959), p. 226 As recently as the early 1980s, academic commentators were writing about rehabilitation as an approach towards offenders that had had its day. In the wake of the well-documented collapse of the 'rehabilitative ideal' (Allen, 1959), critics and supporters alike seemed to converge on the idea that rehabilitation as a penal strategy would soon be a thing of the past (e.g. Bottomley, 1980; Bottoms, 1980a;Allen, 1981). This conclusion was powerfully re-stated a decade later by American criminologists Feeley and Simon (1992, 1994), whose 'new penology' thesis seemed to confirm the death of rehabilitation in Western penal systems. However, less than a decade later, rehabilitation was beginning to enjoy a marked revival. By the late 1990s, we were witnessing renewed commitment to rehabilitation as an approach towards offenders. This revival was not confined to the realm of penal practices, but was also evident in (and legitimated by) penal policy statements, as well as a significant injection of resources for the development and evaluation of rehabilitative

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Author

Peter Raynor, Gwen Robinson (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333687406

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Science, Political Science