Reform in the Making: The Implementation of Social Policy in Prison

List of Tables ix Acknowledgments Xi Introduction "This Place Just by Being Here Is Not Going to Correct You": The Rediscovery of Rehabilitation 3 1. Revisiting Rehabilitation: Why "What Works" Is the Wrong Question 15 2. Keeping the Peace: Institutional Needs, Institutional Values, and Implementation 33 3. Unsuccessful Implementation: The Use and Abuse of Programs 60 4. Successful Implementation: Keeping Busy and Helping Yourself 98 5. The Importance of Successful Implementation: Recasting the Debate over Mandatory and Voluntary Programs 129 Conclusion Deliberately Successful Implementation: Doing Time, Doing My Time, and Letting the Time Do Me 160 Appendix 1 Research Design Meets Prison Administration: Methodological Notes 175 Appendix 2 On Being Who You Are: Credibility, Bias, and Good Research 186 Bibliography 195 Index 207