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Four forms of ‘offender’ rehabilitation

Towards an interdisciplinary perspective

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ID23323367
AuthorsFergus Mcneill (0000-0003-3547-6482, University of Glasgow, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume17
Issue1
Pages18-36
Publication date2012-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLegal and Criminological Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1355-3259 • E-ISSN: 2044-8333
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.2044-8333.2011.02039.x
OpenAlexW1935964307
LanguageEN
Citations received66
References cited50

This paper aims to advance the case for a more fully interdisciplinary understanding of offender rehabilitation, partly as a means of shedding light upon and moving beyond contemporary ‘paradigm conflicts’. It begins with a review of current arguments about what a credible ‘offender’ rehabilitation theory requires and by exploring some aspects of current debates about different theories. It goes on to locate this specific kind of contemporary theory building in the context of historical arguments about and critiques of rehabilitation as a concept and in practice. In the third part of the paper, I explore the nature of the relationship between desistance theories and rehabilitation theories, so as to develop my concluding argument; that is, that debates about psychological rehabilitation have been hampered by a failure to engage fully with debates about at least three other forms of rehabilitation (legal, moral, and social) that emerge as being equally important in the process of desistance from crime.

Argument (complex analysis) · Context (archaeology) · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical) · Process (computing) · Sociology · Computer Science · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Medicine · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Rehabilitation

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