The number of women prisoners has been growing rapidly during recent years and in many places has more than doubled in the past decade. However, most of the research and publications in this area are related to men. What Works with Women Offenders provides a comprehensive analysis of issues relating to work with women offenders, with chapters written by academics and professionals with a high degree of expertise in their specific field. Its international and practical focus will enable readers to apply the material directly to work with women offenders.
The number of women prisoners has been growing rapidly during recent years and in many places has more than doubled in the past decade. However, most ...
The Children's Court is one of society's most important social institutions. At the same time, it is steeped in controversy. This is in large measure due to the persistence and complexity of the problems with which it deals, namely, juvenile crime and child abuse and neglect. Despite the importance of the Children's Court as a means of holding young people accountable for their anti-social behaviour and parents for the care of their children, it has not been the subject of close study. Certainly it has not been previously studied nationally. This book, an edited collection, is based on the...
The Children's Court is one of society's most important social institutions. At the same time, it is steeped in controversy. This is in large measure ...
Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as child protection, family welfare, mental health, offending, disability and addictions, family violence programmes, juvenile justice and sexual assault centres. This book offers contemporary perspectives on forensic policy and practice from the range of practitioners working with people within the forensic domain and canvasses ideas about risk and offending behaviours together with ideas about effective responses to rehabilitation and...
Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as ...
This edited collection examines the current challenges faced by the Children's Court and identifies area for reform. It explores the welfare and justice approaches to resolving care and protection and youth offending cases.
This edited collection examines the current challenges faced by the Children's Court and identifies area for reform. It explores the welfare and justi...
Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as child protection, family welfare, mental health, offending, disability and addictions, family violence programmes, juvenile justice and sexual assault centres. This book offers contemporary perspectives on forensic policy and practice from the range of practitioners working with people within the forensic domain and canvasses ideas about risk and offending behaviours together with ideas about effective responses to rehabilitation and...
Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as ...
Making decisions about the care and protection of children who appear before the courts is complex. Attention must be paid to the best interests of the child, the child s need for their family, community views on parenting, and concern about welfare intrusion into family life. Magistrates have a unique authority to make, or reject child protection orders - yet the criteria they use to decide a protection order, how they understand the information presented to them in court and the factors that influence their discretion and decision-making have, until now, been little known. Presenting the...
Making decisions about the care and protection of children who appear before the courts is complex. Attention must be paid to the best interests of th...
Whilst recent attention has been paid to responding to the needs of women in prison, negligible research attention has been paid to women after prison and the support required in reducing their risk of re-offending. Based on extensive Australian research, this book considers how women manage their correctional obligations and re-settle in the community after prison. Drawing on a range of case studies of the experiences of women before and after they leave prison including their interactions not just with professional services but also with personal networks including partners, children...
Whilst recent attention has been paid to responding to the needs of women in prison, negligible research attention has been paid to women after pri...
