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List of contents
Illustrations
Foreword by Ronald L. Akers
Foreword by James A. Inciardi
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Kevin E. Early
Growth-Centered Intervention: An Overview of Changes in Recent Decades by Ted Palmer
Assessment, Client Treatment Matching, and Managing the Substance Abusing Offender by Gerald L. Vigdal and Donald W. Stadler
Therapeutic Communities in Prisons: Dealing with Toxic Waste by Rod Mullen
The Therapeutic Community: An Effective Model for Corrections-Based Drug Abuse Treatment by James A. Inciardi
Essential Elements of the Effective Therapeutic Community in the Correctional Institution: A Director's Account by Steven F. Singer
Drug Abuse Treatment in the Federal Bureau of Prisons: An Historical Review and Assessment of Contemporary Initiatives by Donald W. Murray, Jr.
Prison Treatment for Substance Abusers: Stay 'N Out Revisited by Harry K. Wexler, Ronald A. Williams, Kevin E. Early, and Carlton D. Trotman
Evaluation of Prison Substance Abuse Treatment Programs: Outcome Studies and Methodology by Harry K. Wexler
Changing the Paradigm about Youth Violence and Drug Abuse by Rod Mullen and Naya Arbiter
Final Note
Biographical Sketches
Index
About the author
KEVIN E. EARLY is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oakland University in Michigan. He specializes in criminology, corrections, deviance/social control, and substance abuse. Professor Early is a Certified Criminal Justice Specialist (C.C.J.S.) with more than 9 years of experience in the fields of mental health, substance abuse, and corrections. He has published in the areas of deviance, death and dying, and race and ethnic relations. He is the author of
Religion and Suicide in the African-American Community (Greenwood, 1992) and co-authored (with Martha Zingo) of
Nameless Persons (Praeger, 1994).
