Describes and analyses internationally significant theoretical and empirical work on offender supervision, and addresses the policy and practice implications of this work within and across jurisdictions. This book is suitable for academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, policy makers, managers interested in offender supervision.

The risk assessment process, the interventions and treatment commenced as a result of it and the theory behind it are central to the administration of criminal justice programmes around the world. Most youth and adult corrections departments routinely conduct risk assessments, which are then used to inform the nature and intensity of subsequent criminal justice interventions.
In this unique and important text, a team of the world's leading researchers in the field of criminal justice come together to provide a critique of this risk paradigm, and to provide practical guidance for...