Community Justice in Australia: Knowledge, Skills and Values

ISBN-13: 9781032045672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 256 str.

Australia) Stout Brian (Western Sydney University

Opis

This new edition expands on the discussion of how people who have committed offences can be engaged in the community. It considers how the concept of community justice can be successfully applied within Australia by social workers, criminologists, parole officers and anyone working in the community with both adults and young people.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Community justice  2. Adults who have committed offences  3. Juvenile justice  4. Theories of offending and evidence-based practice  5. Restorative justice  6. Risk-management and protection of the public  7. Diversity  8. Organisation and management  9. Technology and community justice  10. Facilitating desistance and building good lives  11. Values, ethics, human rights and children’s rights  12. Practitioner skills

O autorze

Brian Stout is Pro Vice Chancellor of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Professor of Social Work at Western Sydney University, Australia. He has practiced, taught and researched community justice in Northern Ireland, England, South Africa and Australia. He is author of Equality and Diversity in Policing (2010) and numerous chapters and journal articles. He is also editor of Applied Criminology (2008).