Offender Supervision: New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781843929369 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 584 str.

McNeill, Fergus

Opis

This major new book brings together leading researchers in the field in order to describe and analyse internationally significant theoretical and empirical work on offender supervision, and to address the policy and practice implications of this work within and across jurisdictions. Arising out of the work of the international Collaboration of Researchers for the Effective Development of Offender Supervision (CREDOS), this book examines questions and issues that have arisen both within effectiveness research, and from research on desistance from offending. The book draws out the lessons that can be learned not just about 'what works?', but about how and why particular practices support desistance in specific jurisdictional, cultural and local contexts.
Key themes addressed in this book include:

• New directions in theory and paradigms for practice
• Staff skills and effective offender supervision
• Different issues and challenges in improving offender supervision
• The role of families, 'significant others' and social networks
• Understanding and supporting compliance within supervision
• Exploring the social, political, organisational and historical contexts of offender supervision

Offender Supervision will be essential reading for academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, policy makers, managers and practitioners interested in offender supervision.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: ‘What’s New and Exciting?’  Part 1: New Directions in Theory  2. Viewing Offender Assessment and Rehabilitation Through the Lens of the Risk-Needs-Responsivity Model  3. Strengths and Risks: The Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation  4. The Desistance Paradigm in Correctional Practice: From Programs to Lives  Part 2: Staff Skills and Effective Offender Supervision  5. Technology Transfer: The Importance of On-Going Clinical Supervision in Translating ‘What Works’ to Everyday Community Supervision  6. Skills and Strategies in Probation Supervision: The Jersey Study  7. Supervision Skills in Juvenile Justice  Part 3: Improving Offender Supervision  8. The Role of Risk, Needs and Strengths Assessment in Improving Supervision  9. Managing Chaos:  Implementing Evidence Based Practices in Correctional Agencies  10. Can Structured Programmes Improve One-to-One Supervision?  11. Beyond Supervision: Judicial Involvement in Offender Management  Part 4: Significant Others and Social Networks  12. It’s Relational: Integrating Families into Community Corrections  13. Justice for All: Family Matters in Offender Supervision  14. Working with Families in Criminal Justice  15. Collaborating with the Community, Trained Volunteers and Faith Traditions: Building Social Capacity and Making Meaning to Support Desistance  Part 5: Offenders’ Compliance with Supervision  16. Compliance with Community Penalties: The Importance of Interactional  18. The Dynamics of Compliance with Offender Supervision  19. Exploring Community Service, Understanding Compliance  Part 6: Offender Supervision in its Contexts  20. The Socio-Political Context of Reforms in Probation Agencies:  Impact on Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices  21. Revising the National Outcomes and Standards for Criminal Justice Social Work Services in Scotland  22. The Purposes of Supervision: Practitioner and Policy Perspectives in England and Wales  23. Pre-Sentence Reports in England and Wales: Changing Discourses of Need, Risk and Quality  24. Supervision in Historical Context: Learning the Lessons of (Oral) History  25. Electronic Monitoring: Towards Integration into Offender Management?  26. Conclusion: Where are we now?

O autorze

Fergus McNeill, Peter Raynor, Chris Trotter