Probation services Books

Book SynopsisA one-stop resource of practical exercises for professionals to use in direct work with offenders aged 16+.Changing Offending Behaviour is a guide to the essentials of rehabilitation theory which also equips the reader with ready-to-use photocopiable exercises and activities to help put the theory into practice in rehabilitation work with adult offenders. Drawing on a range of evidence-based methodologies, theories and treatment approaches, including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Attachment Theory, Relationally-based Therapies, Social Learning Theory, Motivational Interviewing and the Cycle of Change, this resource provides exercises to increase self-understanding, examine patterns of behaviour, and build empathy and other crucial skills. All the exercises are culturally aware and designed for maximum flexibility to meet different needs and learning styles.Covering must-know theory and packed with practical exercises that work, this is an indispensable resource for probation workers and related professionals.Trade ReviewThis book will be an invaluable tool for those working with offenders and will help promote a positive and compassionate approach to the work undertaken. It is very well structured with a wide range of clearly written and helpful exercises, many useful tips and strategies for the practitioner and sufficient theory to explain the underpinnings and rationale for the areas addressed and aims of the exercises. -- Dawn Fisher, Ph.D. Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist, St Andrews and University of BirminghamChanging Offending Behaviour sets out to be an accessible work-based resource for busy practitioners in a range of disciplines, and does just that. The book provides clear and comprehensible summaries of current thinking on Theory, Principles and Skills for relationship-based practice (Part One), and then provides a well-constructed and broadly based series of simple to understand Exercises and Session Descriptions (Part Two). It is full of well-founded professional advice, wisdom and encouragement. -- Gerry Marshall, former Chief Executive, Thames Valley ProbationI thoroughly enjoyed reading Changing Offending Behaviour. Throughout there was a real focus on the individual developing insight and self-management. I would recommend Changing Offending Behaviour to any practitioner working directly with clients in the criminal justice system for both individual and group work; an excellent read. -- Tania Tancred, C Psychol, CSci, AFBPsS, Chartered Psychologist, Chartered Scientist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological SocietyLike all great books, this one will help you by encouraging you to ask intelligent and provocative questions - and if you use it wisely, it will support positive changes in your practice and therefore positive changes in others. -- From the Foreword by Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology and Social Work, University of GlasgowBased on a rich, integrated theoretical base and the authors' considerable professional experience, Changing Offending Behaviour provides an innovative, sophisticated and above all practical resource for the next generation of strengths-based offender rehabilitation practice. -- Shadd Maruna, Dean, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers UniversityThe book split into two main sections. The first section covers the theories and principles underpinning our practice and the essential skills and frameworks for practitioners. The second section of the book introduces the exercises to promote positive change... I like the language and tone of this book. It's all very positive and encouraging.... This book very much focuses on engagement. Each worksheet or exercise is explained thoroughly to give the practitioner confidence in the delivery... it is a really good resource. -- Lydia Guthrie * Probation Officer blog *Table of ContentsIntroduction and How to Use this Book. Part 1: Essential Theory and Skills. 1. Essential Theory and Principles of Practice. 2. Essential Skills for the Worker. Part 2: Practical Exercises and Activities. Module 1. Building on Strengths and Motivating People Towards Change. Module 2. Understanding Myself and my Patterns of Behaviour. Module 3. Me in Relation to Other People. Module 4. Setting Future Goals and Preparing for Challenges Ahead. Module 5. Maintaining Change: Moving Forward with My Life.

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Book SynopsisHaving Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) can - given certain situational conditions - make individuals more vulnerable to becoming caught up in criminal activity and vulnerable to unfavourable interactions once in the criminal justice system. Guided by empirical research, psychological theory and illustrative case studies involving adults with ASD who have been implicated in crimes, Robyn L. Young and Neil Brewer explain why. They examine the pivotal cognitive, social and behavioural characteristics unique to ASD (such as weak Theory of Mind, restricted interests and acute sensory sensitivities) that - individually or in interaction - may contribute to individuals becoming involved in illegal activities. They then discuss how these same characteristics can result in ongoing ineffective interaction with the criminal justice system. Arguing that the forensic assessment of individuals with ASD requires substantial redevelopment to clarify the key deficits contributing to criminal behaviour, the authors highlight the need for, and desirable nature of, intervention programs to minimize the criminal vulnerability of adults with ASD and to prepare them for interactions with the criminal justice system. A final section raises some major unanswered questions and issues for future research. This book will be of immeasurable interest to criminal justice professionals including probation officers, social workers, clinical and forensic psychologists, police officers, lawyers and judges, as well as students of these professions.Trade ReviewThe involvement of adolescents and adults with autism in the criminal justice system can be daunting for professionals and families who have limited experience or knowledge of how the system works. Fortunately, this excellent resource is extremely comprehensive and presents the main issues in all of their complexity yet in a way that is understandable for those without a legal background. Anyone dealing with criminal justice issues in ASD will appreciate this book and find it to be immensely interesting and informative. -- Gary B. Mesibov, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of North CarolinaTable of Contents1. Some Bad Guys. 2. Prevalence of Crime. 3. Behavioural Characteristics of ASD. 4. Criminal Vulnerability: Comorbid and Socio-Environmental Influences. 5. Criminal Vulnerability: ASD-Specific Influences. 6. ASD-Specific Influences: Case Studies. 7. Interactions with the Criminal Justice System. 8. Assessment and Intervention. 9. Future Directions. References.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPart I: THE CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM: HOW AND WHY WE CORRECT. 1. The Correctional System. 2. Sentencing and the Correctional Process. Part II: TYPES OF CORRECTIONAL SANCTIONS. 3. Community Corrections: Diversion and Probation. 4. Intermediate Sanctions and Restorative Justice. 5. Jails and Houses of Correction. 6. Prisons. Part III: LIVING IN AND LEAVING THE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION. 7. The Prison Experience: Gender in Prisons. 8. Prisoners' Rights. 9. Correctional Programs and Services. 10. Parole and Release to the Community. Part IV: ISSUES IN CORRECTIONS. 11. Special Prison Populations. 12. Capital Punishment and the Death Row Inmate. 13. The Juvenile Offender.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. The Research, the Context, and the Reform 2. Starting Points 3. Costs of Conviction 4. Agent Actions 5. Treatment 6. Marginalization 7. Endpoints 8. Reform Appendix: Method and Sample Characteristics Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn a Box draws on the experiences of more than one hundred Michigan women on probation or parole to analyze how court, state, and federal policies hamper the state's efforts at gender-responsive reforms in community supervision. Closely narrating the stories of six of these women, Merry Morash shows how countervailing influences keep reform-oriented probation and parole agents and the women they supervise in a box. Supervisory approaches that attempt to move away from punitive frameworks are limited or blocked by neoliberal social policies. Inspired by the interviewees' reflections on their own experiences, the book offers recommendations for truly effective reforms within and outside the justice system. Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. The Research, the Context, and the Reform 2. Starting Points 3. Costs of Conviction 4. Agent Actions 5. Treatment 6. Marginalization 7. Endpoints 8. Reform Appendix: Method and Sample Characteristics Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book shows how prison officers may be able to significantly influence extra-programmatic conditions, to enhance rehabilitation outcomes and contribute to reducing reoffending. It does so through a detailed review of the literature relating to prison-based rehabilitation programmes, examining factors influencing their outcomes and the effects of the prison officer role.Firstly the book explores current understandings about the role of the prison and effective offender rehabilitation programmes. It then describes the processes of the integrative review of how prison officers can support rehabilitation programmes in prisons. Review findings suggest three main routes by which prison officers can contribute to enhancing rehabilitation outcomes: influencing prison social environments, enhancing prisoner treatment readiness and programme engagement and identifying and supporting prisonersâ wider needs. This book also explores avenues for further research in this area using a de

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Book SynopsisThis collection presents a unique and diverse range of contributions on challenges faced by criminal justice in England and Wales in the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic.The book brings together leading experts to examine the impact of the pandemic on policing and criminal procedure, prisons, and the post-conviction stage of the system. The work further explores the lessons that may be learned and explores the relevance of these lessons for the wider criminal justice system. The reader will gain substantial insight into contemporary challenges in these areas, through original analysis and argument. The experience of England and Wales during the pandemic will also be of interest to the wider international community who will have encountered many of the issues raised in this collection.The book will be essential reading for researchers, academics, and policymakers involved in criminal justice.

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Book SynopsisThis book showcases research from a wide range of authors in the field of desisting from crime and recovering from addiction and examines the experiences of change for individuals seeking healthier and more successful futuresTrade Review"This collection provides an interesting introduction and, in some cases, fresh empirical insights, into some less discussed aspects of identity. It will be useful for anyone grappling with the role of gender in processes of change" Probation Journal"Showcases original and innovative research which offers a rich examination of the multifaceted and complex nature of identity providing a unique, in-depth exploration of the ways in which structural contexts, gender ethnicity, and community dynamics impact the process of identity change." Sam King, University of Leicester"provides insightful research findings which consider how personal change is initiated and sustained in ways that will doubtless be of relevance to practitioners and scholars of desistance." - Drugs, Education, Prevention and PolicyTable of ContentsExtending the `desistance and recovery debates’ – thoughts on identity ~ Paula Hamilton; Emotions and Identity transformation ~ Paula Hamilton; Men, prison and aspirational masculinities ~ Jennifer Sloan; Lived desistance: understanding how women experience giving up offending ~ Sarah Goodwin; Growing out of crime? Problems, pitfalls and possibilities ~ Anne Robinson; Different pathways for different journeys: ethnicities, desistance and identities ~ Adam Calverley; Fear and loathing in the community ~ Jacky Burrows; Social identity, social networks and social capital in desistance and recovery ~ David Best; Alcoholics Anonymous: sustaining behavioural change ~ James Irving; End-notes and further routes for enquiry ~ Anne Robinson.

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Book SynopsisThis book showcases research from a wide range of authors in the field of desisting from crime and recovering from addiction and examines the experiences of change for individuals seeking healthier and more successful futuresTrade Review"This collection provides an interesting introduction and, in some cases, fresh empirical insights, into some less discussed aspects of identity. It will be useful for anyone grappling with the role of gender in processes of change" Probation Journal"Showcases original and innovative research which offers a rich examination of the multifaceted and complex nature of identity providing a unique, in-depth exploration of the ways in which structural contexts, gender ethnicity, and community dynamics impact the process of identity change." Sam King, University of Leicester"provides insightful research findings which consider how personal change is initiated and sustained in ways that will doubtless be of relevance to practitioners and scholars of desistance." - Drugs, Education, Prevention and PolicyTable of ContentsExtending the `desistance and recovery debates’ – thoughts on identity ~ Paula Hamilton; Emotions and Identity transformation ~ Paula Hamilton; Men, prison and aspirational masculinities ~ Jennifer Sloan; Lived desistance: understanding how women experience giving up offending ~ Sarah Goodwin; Growing out of crime? Problems, pitfalls and possibilities ~ Anne Robinson; Different pathways for different journeys: ethnicities, desistance and identities ~ Adam Calverley; Fear and loathing in the community ~ Jacky Burrows; Social identity, social networks and social capital in desistance and recovery ~ David Best; Alcoholics Anonymous: sustaining behavioural change ~ James Irving; End-notes and further routes for enquiry ~ Anne Robinson.

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Book SynopsisAs marketisation and privatisation reshape the criminal justice system, this illuminating overview sets out their causes, scale and impacts. With case studies and economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, leading academics consider the evolving roles of public, private and voluntary sectors and possible future reforms.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice; an Overview ~ Kevin Albertson, Mary Corcoran and Jake Phillips Part 1 ~ Introduction and Theoretical Frameworks Market Society Utopianism in Penal Politics ~ Mary Corcoran Outcomes-Based Contracts In the UK Public Sector ~ Chris Fox and Kevin Albertson The Carceral State and the Interpenetration of Interests: Commercial, Governmental, and Civil Society Interests in Criminal Justice ~ James Gacek and Richard Sparks Understanding the Privatisation of Probation Through the Lens of Bourdieu’s Field Theory ~ Jake Phillips The Progress of Marketisation: The Prison and Probation Experience ~ Kevin Albertson and Chris Fox Part 2 ~ Experiences of Marketisation in the Public Sector The ‘Soft Power’ of Marketisation: The Administrative Assembling of Irish Youth Justice Work ~ Katharina Swirak Police Outsourcing and Labour Force Vulnerability ~ Roxanna Dehaghani and Adam White Marketisation or Corporatisation? Making Sense of Private Influence in Public Policing Across Canada and the US ~ Kevin Walby and Randy K. Lippert Marketisation and Competition in Criminal Legal Aid: Implications for Access to Justice ~ Tom Smith and Ed Johnston Holding Private Prisons to Account: What Role for Controllers As ‘The Eyes and Ears of the State’? ~ Joanna Hargreaves and Amy Ludlow A Flawed Revolution? Interrogating the Transforming Rehabilitation Changes in England and Wales Through the Prism of a Community Justice Court ~ Jill Annison, Tim Auburn, Daniel Gilling and Gisella Hanley Santos Part 3 ~ Marketisation and the Voluntary Sector Constructive Ambiguity, Market Imaginaries and the Penal Voluntary Sector in England and Wales ~ Mary Corcoran, Mike Maguire and Kate Williams Marketisation of Women’s Organisations in the Criminal Justice Sector ~ Vickie Cooper and Maureen Mansfield Surviving the Revolution? The Voluntary Sector Under Transforming Rehabilitation in England and Wales ~ Kevin Wong and Rob Macmillan Part 4 ~ Beyond Institutions: Marketisation Beyond the Criminal Justice Institution Neoliberal Imaginaries and GPS Tracking in England and Wales ~ Mike Nellis Misery As Business: How Immigration Detention Became a Cash-Cow in Britain’s Borders ~ Monish Bhatia and Victoria Canning Prison Education: A Northern European Wicked Policy Problem? ~ Gerry Czerniawski Making Local Regulation Better? Marketisation, Privatisation and the Erosion of Social Protection ~ Steve Tombs The ‘Fearsome Frowning Face of the State’ and Ex-Prisoners: Promoting Employment or Alienation, Anger and Perpetual Punishment? ~ Del Roy Fletcher Conclusion: What Has Been Learned ~ Kevin Albertson, Mary Corcoran and Jake Phillips

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Book SynopsisAs marketisation and privatisation reshape the criminal justice system, this illuminating overview sets out their causes, scale and impacts. With case studies and economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, leading academics consider the evolving roles of public, private and voluntary sectors and possible future reforms.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Marketisation and Privatisation in Criminal Justice; an Overview ~ Kevin Albertson, Mary Corcoran and Jake Phillips Part 1 ~ Introduction and Theoretical Frameworks Market Society Utopianism in Penal Politics ~ Mary Corcoran Outcomes-Based Contracts In the UK Public Sector ~ Chris Fox and Kevin Albertson The Carceral State and the Interpenetration of Interests: Commercial, Governmental, and Civil Society Interests in Criminal Justice ~ James Gacek and Richard Sparks Understanding the Privatisation of Probation Through the Lens of Bourdieu’s Field Theory ~ Jake Phillips The Progress of Marketisation: The Prison and Probation Experience ~ Kevin Albertson and Chris Fox Part 2 ~ Experiences of Marketisation in the Public Sector The ‘Soft Power’ of Marketisation: The Administrative Assembling of Irish Youth Justice Work ~ Katharina Swirak Police Outsourcing and Labour Force Vulnerability ~ Roxanna Dehaghani and Adam White Marketisation or Corporatisation? Making Sense of Private Influence in Public Policing Across Canada and the US ~ Kevin Walby and Randy K. Lippert Marketisation and Competition in Criminal Legal Aid: Implications for Access to Justice ~ Tom Smith and Ed Johnston Holding Private Prisons to Account: What Role for Controllers As ‘The Eyes and Ears of the State’? ~ Joanna Hargreaves and Amy Ludlow A Flawed Revolution? Interrogating the Transforming Rehabilitation Changes in England and Wales Through the Prism of a Community Justice Court ~ Jill Annison, Tim Auburn, Daniel Gilling and Gisella Hanley Santos Part 3 ~ Marketisation and the Voluntary Sector Constructive Ambiguity, Market Imaginaries and the Penal Voluntary Sector in England and Wales ~ Mary Corcoran, Mike Maguire and Kate Williams Marketisation of Women’s Organisations in the Criminal Justice Sector ~ Vickie Cooper and Maureen Mansfield Surviving the Revolution? The Voluntary Sector Under Transforming Rehabilitation in England and Wales ~ Kevin Wong and Rob Macmillan Part 4 ~ Beyond Institutions: Marketisation Beyond the Criminal Justice Institution Neoliberal Imaginaries and GPS Tracking in England and Wales ~ Mike Nellis Misery As Business: How Immigration Detention Became a Cash-Cow in Britain’s Borders ~ Monish Bhatia and Victoria Canning Prison Education: A Northern European Wicked Policy Problem? ~ Gerry Czerniawski Making Local Regulation Better? Marketisation, Privatisation and the Erosion of Social Protection ~ Steve Tombs The ‘Fearsome Frowning Face of the State’ and Ex-Prisoners: Promoting Employment or Alienation, Anger and Perpetual Punishment? ~ Del Roy Fletcher Conclusion: What Has Been Learned ~ Kevin Albertson, Mary Corcoran and Jake Phillips

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Book SynopsisMany safeguarding practitioners do not specialise in work with sex offenders, but do find themselves working with them and need professional understanding and expertise to do so. This book provides professionals with a clear understanding of current theory and good practice.Designed as a complement to specialist assessment processes, it covers relevant theory, ranging from current research on to neurobiology and sexual deviance, through to types of offending and offender profiles. It also lays out key areas of good practice, from carrying out assessments, managing risk and making complex decisions through to current legislation and how best to safeguard families.Taking you from the fundamental principles right through to responding to complex cases, this book is essential reading for all safeguarding professionals.Trade ReviewThis book is a concise and useful guide for practitioners or those interested in working with sexual offenders. It is also ideally placed to help inform counsellors and therapists who are beginning to work with sex offenders. The book provides not only an overview of the theories associated with sex offender interventions and assessment, but also an update as to the recent developments in the UK. This is essential knowledge for anyone working in this complex area. The book provides a realistic overview of the nuances of the varied and often uncertain field of sex offending, and will help practitioners and students alike in being aware of current best practice. I highly recommend this book for people working with, or training to work with, sexual offenders. -- Dr Ruth Tully, Consultant Forensic Psychologist, Tully Forensic Psychology Ltd, Nottingham, UKWorking with people who have committed, or who are at risk of committing a sexual offence, is challenging and complex. This book is a valuable resource in this work with clear, concise and practical advice. In their text, the Wills' provide a rounded and thoughtful guide that compliments working practices in the UK, and beyond, in an engaging as well as thoughtful fashion. -- Kieran McCartan, Professor of Sociology & Criminology and Leader of the Social Science Research Group, UWE Bristol, and International Chair & Executive Board member, Association the Treatment of Sexual AbusersTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction 1. A brief history of sex - an overview2. Sex and sexuality3. Theories of sexual offending4. People who sexually harm others.5. Theories of risk 6. Assessing the risk presented by sexual offenders 7. Legal contexts8. Approaches and debates9. The reflective professionalAppendixReferences

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Book SynopsisRethinking Community Sanctions: Social Justice and Penal Control redresses the invisibility of community sanctions in a popular imaginary dominated by the prison, resulting in their being seen as ‘not prison’, ‘not punishment’, a ‘let off’, or expression of mercy. Based on insights from interviews with key participants in 3 Australian jurisdictions, case studies of selected programmes and policies, and the international literature, the authors focus on the effects of community sanctions among groups vulnerable to penal control: First Nations peoples, women, and those with disabilities, along with those at the intersections of these groups. Arguing that developing a better, more democratic politics around community sanctions requires coming to terms with the wider carceral web in which vulnerable groups are ensnared, they demonstrate the importance of connecting criminal legal system struggles with broader movements for community control, self-determination, and sovereignty.Trade ReviewWhat do community sanctions look like in Australia in the 21st century? What can be done to realize their progressive potential and minimize their insidious effects? This lively, theoretically informed, empirically grounded book, written by a group of scholars with a deep knowledge of Australia’s penal system, opens up new ways of thinking about a form of sanctioning that is widely used but little understood. -- David GarlandDrawing on the leading international literature on punishment, and further contributing to it, Rethinking Community Sanctions provides the first book-length study of community sanctions in Australia that is both comprehensive in scope and critical in nature. It redresses the profound imbalance between the critical attention devoted to the prison as a sanction and that directed at the far more common reliance on punishment and surveillance in the community, and it carefully elucidates the connections between the two. It does so with particular reference to those most vulnerable to being ensnared in the carceral dragnet. And it offers a positive alternative vision for the future of community sanctions. As much as academics should be drawn to this book, so too should lawyers, criminal justice practitioners and politicians who care about the current trajectory of the penal system. -- Russell HoggThis brilliant book offers the first critical analysis of community sanctions in contemporary Australia – but its contribution goes much further than that. It is the first study anywhere to properly develop a decolonizing perspective on this topic. Both by putting the present-day injustices in their proper historical context and by centering three populations who are too often marginalized in and by penal policy, practice and scholarship (indigenous people, women and people with mental health disorders and/or cognitive disabilities), this book represents a major advance in the study of probation and parole, but also in how we understand relationships between punishment, community and society more generally. Everyone who cares about those relationships should read it, digest it and use it. -- Fergus McNeillA compelling, comprehensive conceptual and empirical analysis of the social, political, and legal nuances of community correctional practices in Australia, this book shows how the risk episteme underpinning community sanctions is limited and has differential effects on women, people with disabilities, and racialized and Indigenous populations. The authors challenge us to reflect on the administrative and operational limits of these sanctions, binaries of community/custody, welfarist/risk, and harsh/ ‘soft’ penalties. Readers are asked to scrutinize how technological, sociopolitical, and populist rationalities reconfigure supervision, while simultaneously remaining hopeful about the potential of ‘community’ sanctions. -- Kelly Hannah-MoffatTable of ContentsChapter 1. Rethinking Community Sanctions Chapter 2. Convergence and Divergence in Community Sanctions Policies Chapter 3. Legal Processes and Community Sanctions Chapter 4. Public Opinion, Signal Crimes and Narrowing 'Experiential Distance' Chapter 5. ‘Less Than More Likely Than Not’: Risk Mentalities, Technologies and Practices Chapter 6. Whither Rehabilitation? Chapter 7. Groups Vulnerable to Penal Control Chapter 8. Politics and Democracy: Opening up the Community Sanctions Landscape

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Book SynopsisIn many countries, community-based penalties such as probation, electronic monitoring and parole are the most common sanctions used in the punishment of criminalized individuals. Despite the widespread use of community-based penalties, these forms of penalization or punishment remain a less studied feature of punishment research today. Punishment, Probation and Parole maps this lacuna in knowledge and scholarship while charting a path to fill it. Bringing together a series of key conceptual papers by leading scholars, the chapters explore the various dimensions and forms of community-based penalties as they are constructed and experienced in different times and places, producing different socio-penal effects. Addressing pressing debates and emerging concepts, this much-needed collection serves to chart directions for future researchers to explore in the field of community-based penalties.Trade ReviewBuilding off McNeill's (2018) Pervasive Punishment, this new edited volume asks how we "make sense" of mass supervision across time and place. The volume brings together some of the most thoughtful scholars working on community sanctions in Europe, the U.S. and less-well studied countries including Chile and Australia, and elsewhere, asking what purposes sanctions like probation and parole serve in the name of justice and how such supervision is experienced by individuals, families and communities. Each chapter brings us a new location and focus, showing the complex and contradictory forces and experiences of community sanctions. And yet across all this diversity is a sense that community sanctions have strayed from their original purposes, growing more punitive and managerial. Taken together, the volume powerfully asks us to consider whether mass supervision itself can ever be rehabilitated away from punishment. -- Michelle S. Phelps, Associate Professor and Martindale Endowed Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, USAIt is increasingly recognized that punishment in the community is no longer the humanising and rehabilitative undertaking as was initially intended. Based on insights from nine different countries around the globe, this book identifies common trends of managerialism and massification. Starting from a deepening and critical understanding of McNeill’s concept of mass supervision and taking a decolonizing perspective into account, this book offers an excellent and thought-provoking contribution to the scholarship on community punishment. -- Kristel Beyens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, BelgiumTable of ContentsChapter 1. Punishment, Probation and Parole: Introduction; Fergus McNeill, Katharina Maier, and Rosemary Ricciardelli Chapter 2. Putting the ‘Mass’ in ‘Mass Supervision’: A Conceptual Analysis; David J. Hayes Chapter 3. The Loss of Meaning in Mass McProbation and McRe-entry; Martine Herzog-Evans Chapter 4. The Changing Role of Community Sanctions in Norway; John Todd-Kvam Chapter 5. (Un)making Penal Electronic Monitoring Policy in Scotland; Ryan Casey Chapter 6. How Has the Weight of Supervision Changed in Romania in the Last Decade?; Ioan Durnescu and Andrada Istrate Chapter 7. ‘That’s not who I am’: Misrecognition, Refusal, and Accommodation Within Parole; Robert Werth Chapter 8. Mass Supervision in the South: 10 Years of the Reform to Alternative Sanctions in Chile; Ana María Morales Chapter 9. ‘Secondary Supervision’ in Canada: A Qualitative Examination of How Probationers’ Loved Ones Understand Community Supervision; Katharina Maier, Michael Weinrath, Rosemary Ricciardelli, and Gillan Foley Chapter 10. Community Sanctions in Australia: Engaging State Level Variations and Developing Indigenous Governance; David Brown Chapter 11. Punishment, Probation and Parole: Conclusion; Fergus McNeill, Katharina Maier, and Rosemary Ricciardelli

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Book SynopsisHow is the modern world shaping young people and youth crime? What impact is this having on the latest policies and practice? Are current youth justice services working? With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book offers an insightful, scholarly and critical analysis of such key issues.Youth Offending and Youth Justice engages constructively with current policy and practice debates, tackling issues such as the criminalisation and penalisation of youth, sentencer decision-making, the incarceration of young people and the role of public opinion. It also features an applied focus on professional practice.Drawing on a wide range of high-quality research, this book will enrich the work of practitioners, managers, policy-makers, students and academics in social work, youth work, criminal justice and youth justice in the UK and beyond.Trade ReviewThis is an excellent text in every possible regard... The editors gave little in the way of guidance as to what they were expecting - a brave (or foolish) course of action that could have led to a unfocused piece (or a great deal of re-writting) but has resulted in an excellent, coherent, insightful addition to the growing body of critical literature surrounding youth offending and youth justice. This slim volume is up there with the best works in this field. -- British Journal of Social WorkThis is an excellent book, which well maintains the high standard we associate with the name of Jessica Kingsley. It succeeds in its aim of being both scholarly and accessible. -- Quakers in Criminal JusticeFor those preferring a more critical analysis and who are ambitious to work in a landscape illuminated by research and what the co-editors might call "ethical principles", this book will be welcomed... More importantly, it is relevant across the range of disciplines and professions involved in youth justice and prevention... The co-editors conclude with an excellent retrospective analysis of the book as a whole, providing commentary on the themes and some useful messages for policy and practice development. All this is crucial reading at a time when youth justice is facing big changes, with few elements of practice, or governance, likely to remain stable. -- Children & Young People NowTable of ContentsPart One: Youth Offending and Youth Justice in Context. Chapter 1. Introduction. Monica Barry and Fergus McNeill, both of the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde, UK. Chapter 2. The Changing Landscape of Youth and Youth Crime. Sheila Brown, University of Plymouth, UK. Chapter 3. Criminal Careers and Young People. Susan McVie, University of Edinburgh, UK. Chapter 4. Children and Young People: Criminalisation and Punishment. Rod Morgan, University of Bristol, UK. Chapter 5. Youth Justice Policy and its Influence on Desistance From Crime. Monica Barry. Chapter 6. Youth, Crime and Punitive Public Opinion: Hopes and Fears for the Next Generation. Shadd Maruna, Queens University Belfast, UK and Anna King, Rutgers University, USA. Part Two: Youth Offending and Youth Justice in Practice. Chapter 7. Beyond Risk Assessment: The Return of Repressive Welfarism? Jo Phoenix, University of Durham, UK. Chapter 8. Supervising Young Offenders: What Works and What's Right? Fergus McNeill. Chapter 9. Incarcerating Young People: The Impact of Custodial 'Care'. Mark Halsey, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia and James Armitage, Attorney-General's Department, Australian Government. Chapter 10. Doing Youth Justice: Beyond Boundaries? Anna Souhami, University of Edinburgh, UK. Chapter 11. Conclusions. Monica Barry and Fergus McNeill. The Contributors. Subject index. Author index.

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Book SynopsisMaintaining a balance between managing and assessing risk and upholding the required high standards of practice in health and social care can be demanding, particularly in the current climate of increased preoccupation with the difficult tensions between rights, protection and risk-taking.Good Practice in Assessing Risk is a comprehensive guide to good practice for those working with risk, covering a wide variety of health, social care and criminal justice settings including child protection, mental health, work with sex offenders and work with victims of domestic violence. The contributors discuss a range of key issues relating to risk including positive risk-taking, collaborating with victims and practitioners in the design of assessment tools, resilience to risk, and defensibility. The book also explores the role of bureaucracy in hindering high quality professional practice, complex decision-making in situations of stress or potential blame, and involving service users in assessment. This book reflects the latest policy and practice within health, social care and criminal justice and will be an invaluable volume to all professionals working in these fields.Trade ReviewDespite my quibbles about the move to assessing risk rather than needed, this book is well worth reading and digesting. -- PSWAs a clinician, academic, and someone who works closely with high-risk offenders with complex needs, I would recommend this text for mental health nurses, and I think it provides a good discussion point for staff who want to improve risk assessment and violence prediction within their teams. The book helps the reader to identify areas that could be enhanced in their practice, risk assessment and management plans, and also their organisational policies and support mechanisms.I would certainly read this book again, keep it as useful reference material and recommend to mental health students or qualified practitioners. -- Mental Health NursingThis book is well laid out and readable, enabling the practitioner or manager to quickly assimilate salient facts and approaches which can be applied readily. As a manager and practice teacher, I see many uses for it in both day to day decision making and in helping students develop and awareness of the multifarious nature of risk, risk assessment and risk management processes. Overall, it is a very useful resource for social workers across the spectrum of practice. -- RostrumTable of ContentsIntroduction. Hazel Kemshall, De Montfort University, UK and Bernadette Wilkinson, KWP Training and Consultancy, UK. 1. Professional Risk Taking and Defensible Decisions. Kerry Baker, University of Oxford, UK and Bernadette Wilkinson. 2. Positive Risk Taking with People at Risk of Harm. Mike Titterton, Director, HALE (Health and Life for Everyone), UK. 3. The Role of Social Capital and Resources in Resilience to Risk. Thilo Boeck and Jennie Fleming, De Montfort University, UK. 4. Risk Assessment and Young People. Kerry Baker and Gill Kelly, KWP Training and Consultancy, UK. 5. The Fallacy of Formalisation: Practice Makes Process in the Assessment of Risks to Children. Sue Peckover, University of Huddersfield, UK, Karen Broadhurst, Lancaster University, UK, Sue White, Lancaster University, UK, David Wastell, University of Nottingham, UK, Chris Hall, University of Huddersfield, UK, and Andrew Pithouse, Cardiff University, UK. 6. Mental Health Risk. Tony Maden, Imperial College London, UK. 7. Risk and Intimate Partner Violence. Amanda Robinson, Cardiff University, UK. 8. Good Lives and Risk Assessment: Collaborative Approaches to Risk Assessment with Sexual Offenders. Georgia D. Barnett and Ruth E. Mann, Interventions and Substance Misuse Group, National Offender and Management Service, UK. 9. Risk and Personalisation. Rosemary Littlechild and John Glasby, University of Birmingham, UK with Louise Niblett and Tina Cooper. 10. Public Health Approaches to Risk Assessment and Risk Management. Jason Wood, De Montfort University, UK. 11. Organisationally Dangerous Practice: Political Drivers, Practice Implications and Pathways to Resolution. Martin C. Calder, Calder Training and Consultancy, UK. The Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisHow do you break the vicious cycle of violence that affects the lives of many young people today? Transformative programmes can help young people to change the way they think about themselves and their futures, and offer support to help them to become resilient and positive young leaders of their community.This manual, based on approaches used successfully by Leap Confronting Conflict, is a guide to designing and setting up transformative programmes and targeted interventions with young people. Part 1 provides guidance and advice on developing a transformative programme and demonstrates how it can help young people break free of violence. Part 2 outlines a full programme on building leadership skills made up of four workshops: Leadership, Advanced Leadership, Leadership in Action, and Fear and Fashion: Tackling knife carrying and use. The manual is packed with exercises and activities and includes full guidance notes and tips on setting up and facilitating the workshops. It will be invaluable for all those working with young people at risk of violence, those managing and delivering programmes for young people, and policy makers, academics and students in youth and conflict fields.Trade Reviewthis well presented book is a recommended purchase, as all the hard work in planning and preparation has been done for you. -- PSW (Professional Social Work)In summary this book offers a repertoire of ideas for facilitators of group work with young people aiming to promote leadership... I certainly am inspired by the strong beliefs of the authors and would recommend that this book is considered by any facilitator of group work with young people as a guide to running a group. -- Social Work: Reflections and ResearchThis manual shares the ground-breaking work of Leap Confronting Conflict for working with young people in conflict or crisis situations. It contains practical activities that can be used in a range of situations, or brought together to form a programme of intervention. I would recommend our students read this manual; it will benefit them both in their studies and in their direct placements with young people. -- Alan Smith, Principal Lecturer in Youth and Community Work, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction. Part I: Developing Transformative Programmes for Youth at Risk. 1. What is a Transformative Programme? 2. Preparing the Ground for Change. 3. Working with Young People. 4. Growing Young Leaders. 5. Gathering a Community of Support. Part II: The Leadership Programme. 6. The Leadership Workshop. 7. The Advanced Leadership Workshop. 8. The Leadership in Action Workshop. 9. Fear and Fashion: Tackling Knife Carrying and Use. Resources.

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Book SynopsisPlaying with Fire is a structured manual and training programme to help youth and conflict practitioners work with young people caught up in conflict and violence. All aspects of conflict are covered, from the initial igniting spark to the roaring blaze. The manual includes ideas and session plans that can be adapted to the needs of a particular group. Sessions include exercises and activities that explore situations of conflict, develop skills to deal with them, and rehearse techniques for future use. The training section outlines how to deliver the programme, including how to use role-play and work constructively with conflict in the training room. This second edition includes new sessions on working with issues of identity and prejudice and working with wider community issues, as well as new exercises and activities. Appendices include alternative session plans and ideas on games and group work exercises. This is a valuable guide for youth practitioners and all those working with young people who face conflict or violence.Trade ReviewLeap works on the basis that conflict in young people's lives can be used as a chance for personal development. Playing with Fire provides the roadmap. It can work as a training course or a series of standalone exercises to dip into... Macbeth and Fine are clear that the book is intended for those already focused on doing the work, and as a clear guide it takes some beating. -- Children & Young people Now, Sam Fitzpatrick, director, TrelyaToo often young people are seen as a problem; in this manual they are accorded respect and valued for their role in being the solution, if properly supported, motivated, and trained. The experienced, and expert, team of practitioners from Leap Confronting Conflict has produced a practical tool kit for any practitioner working with young people engaged in, or experiencing, conflict. I would commend Playing with Fire and believe that it should be available in every school, youth work, and other workplace where conflict, bullying, or violence might affect young people. I have met young people who have participated in the training offered by Leap Confronting Conflict; they provide the best affirmation of the value of both the work of Leap Confronting Conflict and Playing with Fire. -- Professor Edward F Halpin, Professor for Peace Education, Leeds Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition. Introduction. Preparing the Ground. 1. The Fuel: Ourselves and our Communication. 2. The Spark: Immediate Responses and Coping Mechanisms. 3. Smouldering: Powerlessness and Assertiveness. 4. Fanning the Flames: Anger, Enemies and Awareness. 5. Stoking the Fire: Inequalities and Empowerment. 6. The Blaze: Crisis Management, Recovering and Reparation. 7. Mediation and Action for Change: Towards Community Action. Guidance for Trainers. Games and Group Discussion Techniques. Appendix A: Alternative Session Plans. Appendix B: References. Appendix C: Useful Websites and Further Reading.

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Book SynopsisA Circle of Support and Accountability is a group of trained volunteers who meet on a regular basis with a high risk sex offender living in their community. This innovative strategy, which helps the offender both to maintain accountability and reintegrate into the community, is proven to be effective in combating child sexual abuse.This book explains this pioneering approach to managing the behaviour of sex offenders in the community. It provides an overview of sexual abuse, sex offenders and their management, and the Circles approach. The authors set out the development of Circles since they were first started in Canada, the principles of Circles and how they work in practice, and evidence and evaluation of their effectiveness. The use of Circles is brought to life by testimonies from four sex offenders and four volunteers who tell, often movingly, why they joined a Circle, their experiences, and the effects upon them.This unique book, on a ground-breaking approach to managing sex offenders, will be of great interest to professionals across social care and the criminal justice system, including prison and probation services, the police, social workers, counsellors and all those working with sex offenders, including volunteers.Trade Review... written by three authors perfectly placed to comment on this important and growing contribution to the risk management of sex offenders... Overall, this is a valuable book. Although, as stated by the authors, it is not an academic contribution, it will nevertheless be useful for students at both an undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is thus described as a text for those who either know very little about sex offenders or who want to find out more, or who particularly want to know more about Circles. Notwithstanding this, as stated above, Chapter 5 and the empiricalresearch contained within it should be of interest to all academics and practitioners involved in the treatment and management of community-based sex offenders, and for this reason the book is highly recommended. -- Restorative Justice: An International Journal(...) the child sex offender accounts were well judged and sensitively portrayed, and would certainly provide a non-sensationalist and balanced glimpse of the emotionally complex world of the child sex offender which would be instructive to all professionals developing their understanding in this area of work. -- The British Journal of PsychiatryHanvey et al have produced a gem of a book, which successfully explains and explores one approach to sexual offending that is appearing to succeed in genuinely addressing these quandaries effectively...I would recommend this book to all and sundry, indeed it would offer the wider world an antidote to the portrayal of monsters that is the stuff of the tabloid journalism. More specifically though, this has book has an immense amount to offer both those already engaged in working with sexual offending and its consequences, and to those students of psychology and social science. -- Euro VistaIt is a must read for anyone working (or planning to work) within the criminal justice system and allied fields, as well as for students across a wide range of disciplines from criminology to theology. -- The British Journal of Forensic Practiceessential reading for those working in statutory agencies considering or already involved in a circle, and for potential circles volunteers. Would-be core members themselves, if they were to read the book, might already start to see themselves differently. -- Probation JournalAs a circles volunteer myself, I would say that this book provides an accurate account of the work of circles, as seen from a number of viewpoints. What I read in the book matches precisely my own experience! I would see it as essential reading for those working in statutory agencies considering or already involved in a circle, and for potential circles volunteers. Would-be core members themselves, if they were to read the book, might already start to see themselves differently. -- Probation JournalThe book explicitly targets the interested lay person as its primary audience, and in doing so, achieves an easy conversational style and a refreshing absence of jargon throughout. Certainly, the intelligent public and the non-specialist professional (perhaps police or local authority staff) will find both the COSA model and this book interesting and informative... My own view is that the child sex offender accounts were well judged and sensitively portrayed, and would certainly provide a non-sensationalist and balanced glimpse of the emotionally complex world of the child sex offender which would be instructive to all professionals developing their understanding in this area of work. -- British Journal of PsychiatryThey have created a hugely accessible book, in which we are provided with some contextual background for Circles "evolution, explicit narratives of those involved, evaluation considerations of Circles" contribution and an exploration of media portrayals of sexual offending... I would recommend this book to all and sundry, indeed it would offer the wider world an antidote to the portrayal of monsters that is the stuff of the tabloid journalism... Such a successfully retelling of one of the more alternative and effective interventions in a world currently obsessed with offender and care management, can only help to readdress and inform a balance of perspectives. -- Euro Vista: Probation & Community Justice JournalThe book will appeal chiefly to those who have a professional interest in the supervision of sexual offender; but it also provides a fascinating read for anyone interested in safeguarding children and adults at risk of sexual aggression... The book's positive message is that whilst sexual offending takes place within the community and causes much harm, the community can respond and successfully manage sexual offenders. This is a highly readable, informative and welcome addition to the literature on sex offending, safeguarding and public policy. -- Therapy TodayIt is a must read for anyone working (or planning to work) within the criminal justice system and allied fields, as well as for students across a wide range of disciplines from criminology to theology. -- British Journal of Forensic PracticeThis book offers an unusual and interesting perspective on work with one of the most unpopular of all offender groups. It should be of interest to all those who work with offenders in the community. -- Gwen Adshead, Consultant Forensic Psychotherapist, Broadmoor Hospital, UKThis book is written by three authors perfectly placed to comment on this important contribution to the risk management of sex offenders... I think this is a good book... probably better served as a resource for those who either know very little about sex offenders or who particularly want to know more about Circles... if you a pondering whether or not to become a Circles volunteer then this should be core reading. -- Prison Service JournalThe book's strength lies in (...) the largely-unedited stories of eight Circles' participants gathered through in-depth interviews, four with men convicted of sex offences against children, four with community volunteers. The probing interviews offer insightful, frequently unheard, perspectives, particularly when it comes to the former offenders themselves... in addition to their interviews, the authors provide a useful summary of academic research, including recidivism studies, on the model's effectiveness... This is an engaging, informative book, suited to academics, policy makers, practitioners, as well as current and potential community volunteers interested in constructive responses to sexual offending. -- Emma Hughes, Associate professor, California State University * The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction. 1. The Beginning of the Circle: A History of Circles of Support and Accountability. 2. A Man Like Others? What We Know About Sex Offenders. 3. Managing the Problem: Working with People Convicted of Sexual Offences. 4. Within the Circle: The Realities of Practice. 5. The Men's Stories and the Volunteers' Stories. 6. But Does it Work? Evaluation and Evidence. 7. Publish and Damn: The Media and Sex Offending. Endnotes. References. About the Authors. Subject Index. Author Index.

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Book SynopsisChild protection and family workers can complete training without learning about how to work with domestic abuse perpetrators - but intervening at an early stage can make a real difference to increasing family safety.This concise book equips practitioners with the knowledge and techniques they need to make the most of limited client contact with perpetrators. It outlines how to briefly assess perpetrators, how to prepare them for a perpetrator programme, and describes a range of interventions that can be used to reduce the risk they represent in the meantime. Drawing on approaches from motivational work, anger management, CBT and feminist models, but written in practical and easy to follow language, the book provides guidance for carrying out interviews and assessing risk, how to use safety plans, signals and time outs, understanding the impact of abuse on victims, how to analyse incidents of abuse and how to make an effective referral.This reliable guide is a useful reference for any child protection worker wanting to make the most of the valuable opportunity they have to engage with domestic violence perpetrators.Trade ReviewThis is a key text for any frontline child protection worker. It will help them to pro-actively engage with the perpetrator, briefly assess them and consider low-risk interventions. It highlights the challenge of developing a working neutral relationship with the perpetrator and offers guidance on how best to achieve this. The questionnaires and checklists are extremely useful to use as tools during direct sessions with the perpetrator, in particular the story boards. Importantly, this book does not lose sight of the child at the heart of the situation. Overall this should be seen as an essential read for social workers and practitioners from other settings to develop their learning and understanding of domestic violence. -- Ann Marie Symonds, Social Worker, Care and Court Planning, Staffordshire County Council and Lee Pardy-Mclaughlin, Principal Child and Family Social Worker, Staffordshire County CouncilTable of ContentsSection 1. Introduction. 1.1. Contextualising the Model. 1.2 Theoretical Influences. Section 2. Assessment. 2.1 Assessment Interview. 2.2. Risk Assessment. Section 3. Interventions. 3.1. Safety Plans, Signals and Time Outs. 3.2. Taking Responsibility. 3.3. Extending the Definition of Abuse. 3.4. Abusing Cultural Privilege. 3.5. Analysing Incidents of Abuse. 3.6. Building Awareness of Impacts of Domestic Violence. 3.7. Conflict Resolution. Section 4. What Next? 4.1 Referencing Onwards. Index.

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