Cognitive Self Change: How Offenders Experience The World And What We Can Do About It

This book draws on the latest literature to highlight a fundamental challenge in offender rehabilitation; it questions the ability of contemporary approaches to address this challenge, and proposes an alternative strategy of criminal justice that integrates control, opportunity, and autonomy. ò Provides an up to date review of the links between cognition and criminal behavior, as well as treatment and rehabilitation ò Engages directly with the antisocial underpinnings of criminal behavior, a major impediment to treatment and rehabilitation ò Outlines a clear strategy for communicating with offenders which is firmly rooted in the ôWhat Worksö literature, is evidence-based, and provides a way of engaging even the most antisocial of offenders by presenting them with meaningful opportunities to change ò Offers hands-on instructions based upon the real-life tactics and presentation of the high-risk offender

• | Author: Jack Bush, Daryl M. Harris, Richard J. Parker
• | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• | Publication Date: Jun 13, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 202 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Psychology
• | ISBN-10: 0470974826
• | ISBN-13: 9780470974827