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  • How to Be a Cyclist

    An A–Z Guide for the M.A.M.I.L

    Two experts offer this comprehensive guide to modern-day bicycling.No bicycle repair was ever made easier by turning your bike upside down. White shorts are for other people. A helmet perched on the back of your head is perfect if you ride your bike backwards—These and a host of other handy pointers jostle for attention within this A to Z guide to being a cyclist. It's an essential manual and ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lee and His Cause, or, The Why and How of the War between the States

    by John Deering ...
    Lee and His Cause, or, The Why and How of the War between the States is a brief discussion of the questions about the rightfulness of secession and its causes. Heraklion Press has included a linked table of contents. ... Read more

    $2.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to be a Cyclist

    An A-Z Guide for the M.A.M.I.L. (Middle Aged Man in Lycra)

    No bicycle repair was ever made easier by turning your bike upside down. White shorts are for other people. A helmet perched on the back of your head is perfect if you ride your bike backwards - These and a host of other handy pointers jostle for attention within this A - Z guide to being a cyclist. It's an essential manual and source of wisdom for those who would be kings of the road. Many ... Read more

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  • Privatising Probation

    Is Transforming Rehabilitation the End of the Probation Ideal?

    Over the past 20 years, there have been many changes to probation governance in England and Wales aimed at controlling it from central government. However, the changes introduced under the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) agenda, introduced in 2013, are unprecedented: the service has been divided and part-privatised and no longer exists as a unified public body.This topical book looks at the ... Read more

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  • Probation Practice and the New Penology

    Practitioner Reflections

    by John Deering ...
    The criminal justice system has been in a state of flux in recent decades, accompanied by growing levels of insecurity and intolerance of crime and offenders among the general population. Along with government policy and practice, these developments are seen as contributing to an increasingly punitive system that imprisons more than ever before and seeks to punish and manage offenders in the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?

    Theory, Policy and Practice Explored

    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners. A focus on punishment has reinforced sex offending as a problem that is essentially ‘other’ to society and discourages engagement with the real scale and scope of sexual offending in the UK. This book looks at the growth of work with sex offenders, questioning assumptions about ... Read more

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  • Women and Criminal Justice

    From the Corston Report to Transforming Rehabilitation

    This insightful book focuses on developments since the publication in 2007 of the Corston Report into women and criminal justice. While some of its recommendations were accepted by government, actual policy has restricted the scale and scope of change.The challenges of working with women in the current climate of change and uncertainty are also explored, seeking to translate lessons from good ... Read more

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  • What Else Works?

    Creative Work with Offenders

    What Else Works? has developed out of a growing awareness amongst practitioners that centralized notions of what works and ‘one size fits all’ approaches to work with offenders and other groups is inevitably limited in its scope and effectiveness.The book seeks to dispel the view of probation service users as 'offenders', and socially excluded people as 'problems' to be managed and treated, and ... Read more

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    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    This book provides a detailed and comprehensive guide to working with risk. It begins by looking at notions of need, vulnerability and protection and looks at the theoretical concepts of each before applying them to practice. By using this combination of theory and practice the authors are able to integrate policy for a wide range of services users, from older people to children, families and ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Youth Justice and Social Work

    Series series Transforming Social Work Practice Series
    It is vital for social work students and practitioners to understand the complexities of the youth justice system. This fully revised second edition analyses and puts into context several pieces of new legislation such as the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008, the Youth Rehabilitation Order 2009 and the new Youth Conditional Caution. Carefully selected case studies and summaries of ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Young People Leaving Care

    Supporting Pathways to Adulthood

    by Mike Stein ...
    The journey to adulthood is a big step for all young people. However, for young people leaving care it may be far more difficult, coping with major changes in their lives and at a younger age, especially if they lack preparation and support.Young People Leaving Care explores the journey from care to adulthood through the main challenges these young people face: in being in settled accommodation, ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • What Matters in Probation

    Edited by George Mair ...
    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 ... Read more

    $65.99 USD