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Influencing Public Policy: An Embedded Criminologist Reflects on California Prison Reform

Publication year: 2008 | Cataloged on: Nov. 26, 2008

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  • 023410

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  • 2008
  • 22 pages.

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  • Influencing Public Policy: An Embedded Criminologist Reflects on California Prison Reform

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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.
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