Vedic Law Publications

Maharishi’s Vedic Approach to Law, Justice, and Rehabilitation Transcendental Meditation in Criminal Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention Editors: C. N. Alexander, PhD; K.G. Walton, PhD; D. Orme-Johnson, PhD; R.S. Goodman, PhD; N.J. Pallone, PhD. Haworth Press, 2003. Printed as a double issue of the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. 394 pages. Softcover: ISBN 0-7890-2037-8 and hardcover: ISBN 0-7890-2036-x. This book reviews the numerous studies on Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation Programme conducted over the past three decades in criminal justice systems around the world, including the USA, The Phillipines, and Senegal. From the Table of Contents:
•	The Transcendental Meditation Program: A Consciousness-Based Developmental Technology for Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention
•	HIGHLIGHT: A COMMUNITY-BASED SENTENCING PROGRAM FOR PROBATIONERS The Enlightened Sentencing Project: A Judicial Innovation
•	SECTION I: THEORY AND REVIEW
•	Effectiveness of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Criminal Rehabilitation and Substance Abuse Recovery: A Review of the Research
•	Effects of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Neuroendocrine Abnormalities Associated with Aggression and Crime
•	SECTION II: ORIGINAL RESEARCH ON REHABILITATION
•	First Prison Study Using the Transcendental Meditation Program: La Tuna Federal Penitentiary, 1971
•	Walpole Study of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Maximum Security Prisoners I: Cross-Sectional Differences in Development and Psychopathology
•	Walpole Study of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Maximum Security Prisoners III: Reduced Recidivism
•	Effects of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Recidivism Among Former Inmates of Folsom Prison: Survival Analysis of 15-Year Follow-Up Data
•	Consciousness-Based Rehabilitation of Inmates in the Netherlands Antilles: Psychosocial and Cognitive Changes
•	SECTION III: PREVENTING CRIME AND VIOLENCE
•	Attacking Crime at Its Source: Consciousness-Based Education in the Prevention of Violence and Antisocial Behavior
•	Preventing Crime Through the Maharishi Effect
•	Preventing Terrorism and International Conflict: Effects of Large Assemblies of Participants in the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi Programs
•	SECTION IV: TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION IN PRISONS AND PRISON SYSTEMS
•	The Transcendental Meditation Program in the Senegalese Penitentiary System
•	Cost Savings from Teaching the Transcendental Meditation Program in Prisons
•	REFERENCES and INDEX
‘This comprehensive review of TM (Transcendental Meditation) in criminal justice management is sure to find a place in the literature on corrections and crime control, and should become REQUIRED READING FOR STUDENTS OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT AND ADDICTION. . . . The book’s principal message—that crime is preventable, criminals are redeemable, and successful social control derives from durable, sustainable self-control—emerges straight from the data. Impressive, compelling . . . it challenges conventional approaches to crime control.’ Alan Mobley, PhD, Faculty Fellow, Department of Criminology, Law & Society, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine