Addressing Offending Behaviour : Context, Practice and Value

ISBN-13: 9781843922438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 460 str.

Simon Green

Opis

Suitable for those concerned with addressing offending behaviour, this book: combines theoretical and contextual debates with practice-orientated concerns, key skills and interventions; offers a discussion of the types of work that are typically undertaken with offenders; and analyses treatment of minority and vulnerable offender populations.

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.