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  • Developments in Social Work with Offenders

    Series series Research Highlights in Social Work
    Developments in Social Work with Offenders explains the organisational and legislative changes that have occurred in social work and probation across the UK in the past 10 years, in the context of the accumulating body of knowledge about what constitutes effective practice in the assessment, supervision and management of offenders in the community.Three different aspects of working with offenders ... Read more

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  • Reforming Community Penalties

    by Sue Rex ...
    This book sets out to explore the role of community penalties in sentencing, arguing that the absence of a strong intellectual framework or underpinning has hampered their development in policy and practice. The research undertaken for this book involved asking people with a particular stake in criminal justice what the point of punishment was and what the courts were trying to achieve in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Alternatives to Prison

    As the UK and many other western societies face up to the consequences of a rapidly increasing prison population, so the search for alternative approaches to punishment and dealing with offenders has become an increasingly urgent priority for government policy and society as a whole.This book reports the results of the research programme commissioned by the Coulsfield Inquiry into Alternatives to ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Reform and Punishment

    Edited by Sue Rex, Michael Tonry ...
    Series series Cambridge Criminal Justice Series
    In this book a group of leading authorities in the field address the key issues surrounding the future of sentencing in Britain, in the light particularly of the highly influential Halliday Report. These proposals for reform amount to the single most ambitious and comprehensive set of proposals for reconstituting the sentencing system of a common-law country, and include proposals to replace ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Community Penalties

    Series series Cambridge Criminal Justice Series
    Community penalties are punishments that, in the courts' sentencing tariff, come between imprisonment and fines. They include electronic tagging, supervised unpaid work, and compulsory participation by offenders in treatment programmes.Recent years have seen many changes in England in the field of community penalties. These have included the rapid development of accredited offending behaviour ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • 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

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  • The Effects of Imprisonment

    Edited by Alison Liebling, Shadd Maruna ...
    Series series Cambridge Criminal Justice Series
    As the number of prisoners in the UK, USA and elsewhere continues to rise, so have concerns risen about the damaging short term and long term effects this has on prisoners. This book brings together a group of leading authorities in this field, both academics and practitioners, to address the complex issues this has raised, to assess the implications and results of research in this field, and to ... Read more

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  • Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management

    Edited by Rob Canton, David Hancock ...
    Contemporary probation practice is developing rapidly and is become increasingly professionalized. Probation officers are typically described now as offender managers, and the creation of NOMS (National Offender Management Service) has broadened the remit of the Probation Service. As well as bringing an increased emphasis on skills and qualifications it has also introduced a new set of ideas and ... Read more

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  • Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management

    A History of Probation

    Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management provides the most accessible and up-to-date account of the origins and development of the Probation Service in England and Wales.The book explores and explains the changes that have taken place in the service, the pressures and tensions that have shaped change, and the role played by government, research, NAPO, and key individuals from its origins in ... Read more

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  • Criminal Justice, Mental Health and the Politics of Risk

    Criminal Justice, Mental Health and the Politics of Risk addresses the important issues which lie at the forefront of decision making and policy in criminal justice and health care. The book brings together several perpectives from a number of distinguished academic lawyers, criminologists, psychologists and psychiatrists. It is multi-disciplinary in its approach and is jointly edited by a lawyer, ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Sex Offenders in the Community

    Edited by Amanda Matravers ...
    Series series Cambridge Criminal Justice Series
    This book explores current criminal justice responses to the management of individuals who are convicted of sexual offences. It aims to help policy-makers, practitioners and students to develop an informed position on this complex and increasingly controversial issue. Although the focus is primarily upon the UK context, contributions from North America (USA and Canada) provide an important ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • A Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education

    Exploring the manufacture of inability

    A Sociology of Special and Inclusive Education brings sociological perspectives to bear on the social, political and economic policies and practices that comprise special and inclusive education, and the education of lower attainers. Increasingly governments have accepted the premise that education should incorporate all social and ethnic groups, especially those regarded as having special ... Read more

    $59.99 USD