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Aitken, Joan E.

Joan E. Aitken is a professor at Park University and Professor Emerita at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She earned her Ed.D. from the University of Arkansas.

Prisoners Paroled to the Violent Streets Describe Their Lives to Us: Understanding Where Social Rehabilitation Must Begin
2010 0-7734-3693-6
This book argues for the importance of communication when facing problems associated with probation and parole. Based on the use of story-telling and listening as a way to influence behavior, the authors include fourteen fictionalized, reality-based narratives, which portray the reality of life within a large city’s violent urban core.