A. Hoffmann

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Parental training for prisoners and ex-prisoners

Parental training for prisoners and ex-prisoners presented by Avraham Hoffmann at the Family and Corrections Network Conference, November 2002, St. Louis, Missouri. Israeli Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority (background) First let me tell you a few words about the Israeli Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority (PRA):The Israeli Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority, a state entity, was founded in 1984[1], to deal […]

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Partnership Between Professionals And The Public – A Condition For ‎Rehabilitating Released Prisoners

Partnership Between Professionals And The Public – A Condition For Rehabilitating Released Prisoners presented by Avraham Hoffmann at the ICPA annual conference, Perth, Australia, October 2001 What right does the Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority (PRA) have to turn to the members of society, and ask that they absorb those who have offended and committed crimes against

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Rehabilitating Released Inmates:‎ The Twofold Circle Of Crime And Drugs

Rehabilitating Released Inmates: The Twofold Circle Of Crime And Drugs presented by Avraham Hoffmann at the Addictions 2000+1 conference, Jerusalem, September 2001 Introduction In genesis (32:7) it says, “Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed.” Rashi explained that the use of synonym signifies that Jacob was afraid of both killing and of being killed. This

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The PRA's Partnership with the Public and Other Agencies

The Israeli Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority’s Partnership with the Public and Other ‎Agencies

The Israeli Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority’s Partnership with the Public and Other Agencies presented by Avraham Hoffmann at the ICPA conference, Cape Town, South Africa, August 2000 What right does the Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority (PRA) have to turn to the members of society, and ask that they absorb those who have offended and committed crimes against

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The THREE-IN-ONE Apartment: ‎ student-prisoner shared housing program

“THE THREE-IN-ONE APARTMENT”: student-prisoner shared housing program Presented by Avraham Hoffmann at the UN 10th Congress on the prevention of crime and the treatment of offenders, Vienna, Austria, 2000. Introduction The Three-in-One apartment Program provides an effective answer to two main issues in the area of prisoner rehabilitation: The need to rehabilitate former inmates in

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The revolution in the methods of rehabilitation of released female inmates in Israel

The revolution in the methods of rehabilitation of released female inmates in Israel Presented by Avraham Hoffmann at the opening of the International seminar on the “Rehabilitation of Female Offenders: Mothers with Their Children”, Prisoner rehabilitation Authority, Jerusalem, May 2000. When I was appointed by the Government of Israel to find a solution for the

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Preparing the Inmate toward His Release – and Preparing ‎the Community to Reintegrate him: The Israeli Experience

Preparing the Inmate toward His Release – and Preparing the Community to Reintegrate him: The Israeli Experience A version was published by the FCN 1999 The Incarcerated Inmate’s Characteristics The passage from the unrestricted life style to the features of life behind bars obviously involves a process of adaptation to the incarceration shock. The inmate

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Israel’s Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority – Programs for the Families

Israel’s Prisoner Rehabilitation Authority – Programs for the Families presented by Avraham Hoffmann at the Fifth North American Conference on the Family and Corrections, Bethesda, Maryland, September 1998. A version was published by the FCN Family & Corrections Network Report, Issue 19: 12-18. Preface: The PRA and its Philosophy First let me tell you a

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