Offender Rehabilitation Issues : Critical Lessons for Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Policy - Charles B.A. Ubah

Offender Rehabilitation Issues

Critical Lessons for Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Policy

By: Charles B.A. Ubah

Hardcover | 15 September 2023

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Most of the studies that discuss offender rehabilitation focus on the debate over whether prison-based education programs work, ignoring the important issues that these programs undertake. Using a critical approach, Offender Rehabilitation Issues: Critical Lessons for Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Public Policy fills the gap by highlighting the offender rehabilitation programs that continue to divide scholars, policy makers, correctional practitioners, students, and the public. This book demonstrates and reaffirms that offender rehabilitation programs and recidivism rates are important and critical social issues that do not exist in a vacuum, are complex interacting social processes and issues with broader social, economic, legal, and political environmental forces and pressures.

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In 1974 sociologist Robert Martinson and colleagues published an apparently negative meta-analysis of 231 research studies on prison education and programming. The study, entitled "What Works?" was published in the journal The Public Interest and covered research over 22 years. The impact was devastating. Critics quickly concluded that nothing works, though Martinson never used those words and later sought to repute that interpretation. Yet, two decades later Congress passed an act eliminating Pell grants in a frenzy of tough-on-crime legislation, which had provided college-in-prison education from hundreds of postsecondary institutions. Ubah offers a lugubrious assessment of an important topic. He provides a useful observation: Martinson's analysis, carefully read, showed that close to half of prison education programs had some salutary benefits. For instance, a report from the RAND Corporation found that in-prison college education reduced recidivism by 43 percent. More recent studies of prison-based education also "overwhelmingly indicate" that education in prison reduces recidivism rates (p. 71). Pell grants are again becoming available to prison systems across the nation, raising the hope that untapped potential behind the walls can be developed. Recommended. Faculty and professionals.


Many books have been published on institutional corrections, but this Offender Rehabilitation Issues text provides the most effective mechanisms for ameliorating recidivism rate. Undeniably, recidivism rate is the most significant, vital dependable measure of the effectiveness of a correctional strategy.


Ubah takes a detailed historical and critical look at post-secondary correctional education from its origins to today's renewal of Pell Grants for those incarcerated. He posits that critical cautions be employed when relying on, and/or neglecting the recidivism measure, self-selection biases, and the short-comings of individual change perspectives. His grounded approach goes deeper than much of the previous literature, and the complexities identified promote a more meaningful consideration of the context, quality, humanity, and expectations of higher ed in prison.

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