Transitions to Better Lives: Offender Readiness and Rehabilitation

Transitions to Better Lives aims to describe, collate, and summarize a body of recent research – both theoretical and empirical – that explores the issue of treatment readiness in offender programming. It is divided into three sections:

• part one unpacks a model of treatment readiness, and explains how it has been operationalized
• part two discusses how the construct has been applied to the treatment of different offender groups
• part three iscusses some of the practice approaches that ha...