What Matters in Probation

ISBN-13: 9781843920526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 376 str.

George Mair

Opis

The What Works initiative is having a profound impact on the work of the National Probation Service, and much has been invested in new accredited programmes - both in terms of the numbers of offenders planned to complete these programmes and their anticipated impact upon offending. Yet there has been little scholarly or professional discussion of the nature and risks of the new paradigm: it is important that it is subjected to critical debate and scrutiny.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: What Works and what matters  2. The origins of What Works in England and Wales: a house built on sand?  3.The uses and abuses of positivism  4. Dangerous thinking: a critical history of correctional cognitive behaviouralism  5. How cognitive skills forgot about gender and diversity  6. The barking dog? Partnership and effective practice  7. Getting tough or being effective: what matters?  8. Beyond programmes: organisational and cultural issues in the implementation of What Works  9. Supervision, motivation and social context: what matters most when probationers desist?  10. Community reintegration: for whom?  11. Community service as reintegration: exploring the potential  12. What Works: a view from the chiefs  13. Purposes matter: examining the 'ends' of probation  14. Getting personal: developments in policy and practice in Scotland  15. What Works and the globalisation of punishment talk

O autorze

George Mair is Professor of Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University.