Your Book Club - Analog Crime Problem

Despite dedication of tremendous resources to developing literary proficiencies, advanced readers may remain an underserved and understudied population. This qualitative study included nine preadolescent participants aged 10–12 years who demonstrated reading comprehension abilities within the top 10% on a national normed achievement battery. The researchers gathered interview data from participants with corroborating evidence from their parents and their book club teacher. The grounded theory analyses found advanced readers to demonstrate superior reading comprehension and the ability to read entire books quickly. Participants reported positive attitudes toward reading in general and preferred out of school reading over the limiting structures of school reading. Some evidence supported a connection between reading and identity exploration through narrative imagination and empathetic relations to characters and narratives. Advanced readers may present cognitive characteristics, as well as behaviors and motivations that require differentiated learning designs.

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The reshaping of participation practices in a second language book club

Journal of Pragmatics ◽

10.1016/j.pragma.2021.07.024 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 184 ◽

pp. 89-106

Author(s):

Eunseok Ro

Keyword(s):

Second Language ◽

Book Club

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Is Rehabilitation Dead?

Crime & Delinquency ◽

10.1177/001112877702300402 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 372-382 ◽

Cited By ~ 23

Author(s):

Seymour L. Halleck ◽

Ann D. Witte

Keyword(s):

Civil Rights ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

Great Increase ◽

Relative Effectiveness ◽

Crime Rates ◽

Crime Problem ◽

Economic Opportunities ◽

Rehabilitation Adherence ◽

Continued Use ◽

Economic Crimes

This paper examines rising crime rates, findings on the relative effectiveness of deterrence and rehabilitation, and the rise of a civil rights movement in correction, all of which have led to greater emphasis on deterrence and incapacitation and less emphasis on rehabilitation in correctional philosophy and practice. The conclusiveness of the findings that "nothing rehabilitates" and "deterrence works" is questioned. A more careful reading of existing evidence leads to no decisive conclusion on the relative effectiveness of these two philosophies of correction. Much of the failure of rehabilitative programs to date stems from programs limited in duration and quality and evaluated for their ability to alter lifestyles dramatically; many that have been shown to be failures are the result of an inadequate tailoring to offender problems. The great increase in economic crimes points to the need to improve the economic opportunities of offenders rather than altering personality. The civil rights movement in correction alerts us to the need for curbs on certain types of rehabilitative programs, but it should not force us to abandon all attempts at rehabilitation. Adherence to a strict deterrence philosophy because of its economic and humanistic cost is questioned. Finally, a more careful application of rehabilitative programs and their continued use are called for as one approach to the crime problem.

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