Addressing Offending Behaviour: Context, Practice and Value

ISBN-13: 9781843922445 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 492 str.

Green, Simon

Opis

Offending behaviour is one of the most talked about issues in contemporary society. What can be done to stop people reoffending? What can be done to help people escape their criminal lifestyles? This book aims to review and analyse the different ways in which these questions are addressed in practice, drawing upon the expertise of academics and practitioners.
The book provides a critical reference text for practitioners, students and researchers interested in devising the most effective means of addressing offending behaviour. Its focus is on the actual work undertaken with offenders, and draws upon generic issues of practice applicable across the voluntary, community and statutory sectors.

Addressing Offending Behaviour aims to bridge the gap between practice and research. It explores a wide range of innovative techniques for offender intervention, along with some of the most challenging academic theories. It also considers the wider social, political and legal context in which this work takes place, and explores the values and bias which operate at both individual and institutional levels.
It will be key reading for both students and practitioners involved in the fields of criminology and criminal justice, law, policing, probation, prisons, youth justice and social work.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Context  1. The Legal Framework  2. The Policy Context  3. The Evidence Base  4. Offending Media: The Social Construction of Offenders, Victims and the Probation Service  Part 2: Practice: Generic Skills  5. Engagement Skills: Best Practice or Effective Practice  6. Written Communication  7. Evaluating Practice  8. Models of Intervention  9. Desistance-focused Approaches  10. Beyond the Risk Agenda   11. Enforcement and Compliance  12. Multi-agency Practice: Experiences in the Youth Justice System  Part 3: Practice: Specialist Skills  13. Working with Dangerous Offenders  14. Understanding and Engaging with Problematic Substance Use  15. Delivering Accredited Programmes: Key Knowledge and Skills for Programme Staff  16. Life After Prison  17. Victims  18. Working with Mentally Disordered Offenders  19. Working with Perpetrators and Victims of Domestic Violence  Part 4: Values  20. 'Values Talk' in the Criminal Justice System  21. Working with Female Offenders  22. Working with Ethnic Diversity  23. Discrimination and the Poor: Using Incentives and Privileges as a Framework for Anti-discriminatory Practice,  Conclusion: A Time of Fear and Excitement,  Appendix: Useful Websites.

O autorze

Simon Green is Lecturer in Community Justice and Criminology at the University of Hull;
Elizabeth Lancaster was formerly Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Bradford; Simon Feasey is Principal Lecturer in Criminal Justice at Sheffield Hallam University.