Bernd Maelicke

The Prison Dilemma

To incarcerate or rehabilitate? - A controversial argument

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Produktbeschreibung

THE GERMAN PRISON SYSTEM - a topic that interests politicians when elections are looming, and the media whenever scandal is involved - is expensive and largely ineffective: over half of the people released from prison re-offend within five years. Locking people up does not rehabilitate them. Instead, the influences of prison subculture prevail. Bernd Maelicke examines the causes of this dilemma, and highlights pathways to the successful social reintegration of offenders. With the »Rehabilitation Agenda 2025«, Bernd Maelicke outlines guidelines and an action plan for concrete and desperate improvement.His credo:»Punishing people is easy, but usually leads nowhere. Showing people a better path and helping them navigate it is difficult, but it's worth it.«

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nomen
• 2nd revised and extended edition with the »Rehabilitation Agenda 2025«
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 209mm x 137mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9783939816645
• ISBN-10: 3939816647
• Artikelnr.: 58002244

Autorenporträt

PROF. DR. BERND MAELICKE,born in 1941, is one of Germany's bestknown crime and social policy experts.From 1978 to 1990, he was director of therenowned Institute for Social Work and Social Education (ISS) in Frankfurt am Main. As undersecretary in the Ministry of Justice of Schleswig-Holstein from 1990 to 2005, he steered reform and development in the state system of custodial and non-custodial services. Since 2005, he has been founding director of the German Institute for Social Economy (DISW) in Lüneburg.He has published innovative concepts for the rehabilitation of offenders and the protection of victims in numerous articlesand books.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the international edition 11Preface to the 2nd German edition 13Prologue 17I. Of pathways, both straight and winding 23Turning Points (1) 23Becoming a criminal 30A perfectly normal procedure 37Old walls, new ideas 54From freedom to captivity 66The objective of imprisonment: offender rehabilitation 71Serving sentence in the regular enforcement regime 81Release and rehabilitation 116II. In search of something better than imprisonment 137Turning points (2) 138III. Schleswig-Holstein, the model experiment 161IV. To incarcerate or rehabilitate? 189V. Perspectives 227VI. Offender Rehabilitation Agenda 2025: towards evidencebased and outcome-oriented criminal justice and social policy 259Action Plan 263Literature 265