Innovations in Corrections
About the Book Series
An emphasis on innovation is evident in the field of corrections. While changes in policies and public opinion regarding sentencing philosophies such as mass incarceration bump up against the reality that budgets continue to be tightened and the division of these revenues is more competitive, innovative strategies become all the more valuable. The premise behind innovation is effecting improvements without sacrificing the overall safety and security of the institution. Through research and evaluation, we seek to identify what works and what does not work. Books in the Routledge Innovations in Corrections series explore innovations in the field of corrections and offer the latest insight into the field through research, theoretical applications, case studies, and evaluations.
Suspended Prison Sentences: Elusive Punishment in Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Jakub Drápal, Krzysztof Krajewski, Milena Tripković
February 19, 2026
This book uncovers the controversies around the suspended prison sentence, its main aims and features, and the role that it occupies within the wider criminal justice context. Suspended prison sentences were introduced in Central and Eastern European (CEE) states as alternatives to short prison ...
Transformation During Incarceration: Breaking the System
1st Edition
By Deanna Evans
August 29, 2025
This book moves beyond rehabilitative strategies in corrections to engage a more holistic understanding of the communal experiences behind prison walls. Behavioral deficit models dominate the field of corrections theory: rehabilitation, retribution, deterrence, incapacitation, and restoration. Even...
Health and Well-Being in Prison Design: A Theory of Prison Systems and a Framework for Evolution
1st Edition
By Alberto Urrutia-Moldes
January 29, 2024
This book establishes a new framework for prison design to promote the health and well-being of all prison users. Based on international research in Norway, Finland, the USA, and Chile, and drawing on the expertise of key international advisors, this book uniquely reveals the perspectives of both ...
Prisons and Community Corrections: Critical Issues and Emerging Controversies
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Birch, Louise Sicard
April 29, 2022
This edited collection brings together leading international academics and researchers to provide a comprehensive body of literature that informs the future of prison and wider corrective services training, education, research, policy and practice. This volume addresses a range of 21st century ...
Prisoner Reentry in the 21st Century: Critical Perspectives of Returning Home
1st Edition
Edited
By Keesha M. Middlemass, CalvinJohn Smiley
June 30, 2021
This groundbreaking edited volume evaluates prisoner reentry using a critical approach to demonstrate how the many issues surrounding reentry do not merely intersect but are in fact reinforcing and interdependent. The number of former incarcerated persons with a felony conviction living in the ...
Recalibrating Juvenile Detention: Lessons Learned from the Court-Ordered Reform of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center
1st Edition
By David W. Roush
March 31, 2021
Recalibrating Juvenile Detention chronicles the lessons learned from the 2007 to 2015 landmark US District Court-ordered reform of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center (JTDC) in Illinois, following years of litigation by the ACLU about egregious and unconstitutional conditions of ...
Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison
1st Edition
By Alison Pedlar, Susan Arai, Felice Yuen, Darla Fortune
September 11, 2019
In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse. Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison provides a rare opportunity to hear directly from women who have spent time ...
Juvenile Justice and Expressive Arts: Creative Disruptions through Art Programs for and with Teens in a Correctional Institution
1st Edition
By Carol Cross
July 12, 2019
Juvenile Justice and Expressive Arts: Creative Disruptions through Art Programs for and with Teens in a Correctional Institution explores art programming as a sustainable educational initiative to support incarcerated teens’ successful reintegration to society. Responding to a lack of scholarly ...
Correctional Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities: Reducing Recidivism Through Behavior Change
1st Edition
By Jennifer Pealer
September 27, 2018
Drawing on original research on the effectiveness of a therapeutic community (TC) in reducing recidivism among juvenile male offenders, Correctional Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Communities: Reducing Recidivism Through Behavior Change provides a comprehensive review of the current state of drug ...
The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its Impact on Parole: There and Back Again in California
1st Edition
By Rita Shah
September 27, 2018
This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how, on a legislative and policy level, the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems. The book explores what rehabilitation is by investigating how, at different moments in time, its conceptualization has shaped, and been shaped ...
Rural Jail Reentry: Offender Needs and Challenges
1st Edition
By Kyle Ward
August 23, 2018
Today’s high recidivism rates, combined with the rising costs of jails and prisons, are increasingly seen as problems that must be addressed on both moral and financial grounds. Research on prison and jail reentry typically focuses on barriers stemming from employment, housing, mental health, and ...
The Angola Prison Seminary: Effects of Faith-Based Ministry on Identity Transformation, Desistance, and Rehabilitation
1st Edition
By Michael A Hallett, Joshua Hays, Byron Johnson, Sung Jang, Grant Duwe
January 03, 2018
Corrections officials faced with rising populations and shrinking budgets have increasingly welcomed "faith-based" providers offering services at no cost to help meet the needs of inmates. Drawing from three years of on-site research, this book utilizes survey analysis along with life-history ...