Reform Through Community : Resocializing Offenders in the Kibbutz Hardback
by Michael Fischer, Brenda Geiger
Hardback
Description
This book recounts a successful effort to resocialize criminal offenders placed in Kibbutzim.
Social scientist Michael Fischer and educational philosopher Brenda Geiger describe the events and experiences that unfolded when a Kibbutz adopted an Israeli ex-convict as a temporary member of its collective.
They conclude that resocialization is achievable: that a world of hard work, interdependence, and self-denial can successfully compete against the temptations for adventure and diversion in an offender's past and present. Fischer and Geiger reconstruct the subjective experiences of the Israeli ex-convicts who were invited to live and work as members on separate Kibbutzim.
They detail how a protective environment, daily routines, egalitarianism, peer group support, acceptance, and trust yielded involvement, commitment, and higher self-esteem on the part of the offenders.
Relating the kibbutz experience to theories of social psychology and criminology, Fischer and Geiger offer a model for resocialization combining group dynamics with social learning in a context of meaningful work and acceptance.
This study is valuable to students and scholars of social psychology, criminology, and Judaic Studies.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:30/07/1991
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- ISBN:9780313279317
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:30/07/1991
- Category:
- ISBN:9780313279317