Influencing Public Policy: An Embedded Criminologist Reflects on California Prison Reform
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Nov. 26, 2008
ANNOTATION: The experiences of the author as an embedded criminologist participating in the reform of California's prisons are recounted. Sections following an abstract are: making the trek to Sacramento and the world of California crime policy; understanding California's crisis-fueled context for change; what the author set out to accomplish -- a twofold agenda; getting research to matter again; incorporating prisoner reentry into the state's mission; impact assessed -- where good intentions meet hard realities; increasing the relevance of criminology in public policy -- seven lessons learned; and concluding remark.