Table of Contents

Part I.

Defining the problem: Crime, incarceration, and recidivism in the United States. 

1. Crime and incarceration in the United States. Alfred Blumstein.

2. A short history of corrections: The fall, and resurrection of rehabilitation through treatment. Clive R. Hollin.

II. Targeting contextual contributors to the problem.

3. Contextual influences on violence. David Farrington. 

4. The good, the bad, and the ugly of electronic media. Muniba Saleem and Craig A. Anderson.

5. Public attitudes and punitive policies. Tom R. Tyler and Lindsay E. Rankin.

Part III. Improving our approach to individual offenders.

6. The Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) model of correctional assessment and treatment. D. A. Andrews.

7. Assessment and treatment strategies for correctional institutions. Paul Gendreau and Paula Smith.

8. Putting science to work: How the principles of Risk, Need, and Responsivity apply to reentry. Susan Turner and Joan Petersilia.

9. Reducing recidivism and violence among offending youth. Barbara A. Oudekerk and N. Dickon Reppucci.

10. Extending rehabilitative principles to violent sexual offenders. Judith V. Becker and Jill D. Stinson.

11. Extending violence reduction principles to justice-involved persons with mental illness. John Monahan and Henry J. Steadman.

Part IV. A way forward.

12. Addressing system inertia to effect change. James McGuire.

13. What if psychology redesigned the criminal justice system? Joel A. Dvoskin, Jennifer L. Skeem, Raymond W. Novaco, and Kevin S. Douglas.