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Reintegration services for long-term dangerous offenders : a case study and discussion
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posted on 2011-01-01, 00:00 authored by Andrew Day, Tony Ward, L ShirleySuccessfully reintegrating long-term prisoners back into the community often presents significant challenges for service providers. Ex-prisoners typically experience high levels of social stigma; present with multiple needs; and can struggle to find meaningful employment, stable accommodation, and to maintain supportive relationships. There have, however, been relatively few published evaluations of the outcomes achieved by postrelease services on managing the risk of reoffending and, as such, it is difficult for service providers to meet these multiple and complex levels of need in ways that might be considered to be evidence based. In this article we describe a specialized prerelease support, reentry, and reintegration service that is offered to long-term prisoners, many of whom have been legally labelled as ‘‘dangerous.’’ The current model of service delivery is reviewed and discussed in the context of current theories of offender rehabilitation and reintegration. These are then used to discuss the way in which services for this group of offenders might best be conceptualized.
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Journal of offender rehabilitationVolume
50Issue
2Pagination
66 - 80Publisher
RoutledgeLocation
Philadelphia, Pa.Publisher DOI
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1050-9674eISSN
1540-8558Language
engNotes
Online publication date 23 February 2011Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2011, Taylor & FrancisUsage metrics
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