TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION in Criminal Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention

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CHARLES N. ALEXANDER, KENNETH G. WALTON, DAVID ORME-JOHNSON, RACHEL S. GOODMAN AND NATHANIEL J. PALLONE

FROM THE PREFACE: “Thirty years ago, people in this country said, "We've got a crime problem. i Neve sing do ab i this even be pop tire people in would go down. Still, we went ahead with it, only to find out that as incarceration rates rose, so did the crime rate. Then we said, "This doesn't work. Let's try a few more things." We tried aggression training, education, job training, counseling, and other programs. We jumped into them all, spending billions across the country with nothing to support any realistic expectation of a reasonable retum for the dollar. Throughout these same years, criminality among our poor has risen, recidivism perpetuates, and our cities have become places where we used to live. Our state budgets have less and less to do with schools, teachers, and students-and more to do with prisons, prosecutors, and inmates…”

NY. The Haworth Press, Inc. s Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Volume 36, Numbers 1/2/3/4. 2003. 424p.