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Book SynopsisSetting Relations Right in Restorative Practice is a practical guide to using restorative processes, both in justice systems, to provide a healing response to harm, and in broader community contexts, to help people co-exist peacefully. Restorative processes can help to establish, maintain, deepen, and repair relationships, and to neutralise the conflict associated with negative relationships. The result is less conflict within people, between people, and between groups, and increasing individual and community wellbeing. These complex goals can be distilled to the single principle of setting relations right.The authors distil lessons from their decades of work at the frontline of restorative innovation. They outline an accurate, accessible theory that informs a restorative mindset, and describe in detail the corresponding skill set. Succinct, engaging case studies include refinements to existing programs in justice systems. Other case studies include the innovations of restorative responses to institutional abuse and to family violence and sexual harm, initiatives to increase psychological safety in schools and workplaces, and programs that support restorative ways-of-working across whole cities or regions. By applying elements from successful programs, practitioners can realise the broader reforming potential of restorative practice.This book is essential reading for restorative practitioners, administrators, and policymakers, for students and researchers â indeed, for anyone interested in the power and potential of restorative practice and other forms of deliberative decision-making.Trade Review'After a few decades of ample glow yet lagging go in the restorative justice movement, Moore and Vernon offer up a unique and much-needed way forward to fulfil the promise of restorative justice and practices. This book will help many of us already in the field to course-correct, but will surely also help launch new efforts to shine bright right out of the gate. The very real lessons wrought from decades of on-the-ground experience, combined with ringing clarity around theory and guiding principles, creates this must-have book for any government, policy-maker, institution, community organization, and practitioner wanting to maximize the impact of their restorative work.'Lauren Abramson, Ph.D., Founder, Baltimore Community Conferencing Center (now Restorative Response Baltimore)'My ancestors experienced life on Aboriginal reserves and government policies which included the forced removal of children who grew up in institutions without the love of and guidance of family. Harsh conditions caused intergenerational trauma and negative social and emotional wellbeing. As Executive Director of our country’s first independent Aboriginal Boarding College, I have experienced firsthand the effectiveness of restorative practices. Our community-led restorative project Lotjpadhan provides for culturally informed decision-making and healing for our at-risk young people, families, and communities. Working with David and Alikki on this project is demonstrating how we can walk together, embed Aboriginal ways of knowing, doing, and being into evidence-based interventions, and bring about great change.'Dr Lois Peeler AM, Yorta Yorta and Wurundjeri Elder, co-founder of Worawa Aboriginal College, and National, and Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee (NAIDOC) 2022 Female Elder of the Year'A unique and inordinately-important book. On the one hand, Moore and Vernon have processed a vast range and depth of scholarly literature detailing restorative practices and related interdisciplinary fields like social psychology. On the other hand, they have sifted this material with the knowledge drawn from decades of program design, implementation, and restorative work. The result is a profoundly insightful and deeply compelling statement of restorative practices that will do nothing less than benchmark the field moving forward.'Douglas Campbell, Professor of New Testament, and co-director of the Duke Divinity School Prison Program'Some years ago, I wrote The Jack Manning trilogy, three plays which portrayed the drama of transforming conflict into cooperation through group conferences in families, work units, and organisations. The plays also posed the larger question of what else might be possible with a restorative process. This book answers that question, with practical guidelines for responding to injustice – effectively, collectively, and non-violently.' David Williamson AO, Australian dramatist and playwright, author of five miniseries, twelve screenplays, and fifty plays, including Face to Face, A Conversation, and Charitable Intent'This long-awaited contribution to the restorative justice discourse unpacks various applications of restorative practices in a practical way, with the safeguards, assessment, and sophistication required to do it well. The book challenges the ‘win’ or ‘lose’ nature of adversarial processes, and identifies opportunities for healing and recovery. The authors bring a theoretical framework, but also unique expertise and on the ground experience of administering and evaluating restorative practices in many different situations and contexts. The critical analysis is useful not only for academic and practitioner audiences, but also for policy makers and programme administrators.'Liz Curran, Associate Professor of Clinical Legal Education, Nottingham Trent University, author of Better Law for a Better World In Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice, Moore and Vernon achieve their stated aims of increasing the “know-how” of both facilitating restorative processes and the administration of restorative programs. The authors set out clear, tested strategies and practices. Through definitional clarity, revisiting RJ’s Occidental and Oriental origin stories and emergence, and clear case examples, Moore and Vernon offer paths for setting relations right within the restorative justice and practices movement itself. Setting Relations Right in Restorative Practice is a welcome, unique, and timely addition to the restorative justice and practices literature. Welcome is the challenge to restorativists to ensure that reflective learning processes in training, facilitation, program design and administration are prioritized. Unique in being informed by years of experience in a wide range of institutional settings and levels beyond their marginalized status with youthful offending and post-conviction applications. Timely in arriving at an important moment in restorative justice’s emerging realization as a social movement in the face of strong headwinds from the rise of authoritarian impulses. This is a hopeful, inspiring work grounded in substantive theory and research, steeped in years of reflective experience on the parts of the authors, beautifully written in a style that will appeal to practitioner-facilitators, program designers and administrators and leaders.Gale Burford Emeritus Professor, Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Restorative Justice at Vermont Law School, editor of Restorative and Responsive Human Services Table of ContentsIntroduction 1.The pattern and pace of innovation in restorative practice 2.Identifying the right process to address the situation 3.Core facilitation skills 4.Refining restorative practices in justice, education, and workplaces 5.Restorative practice for reforming institutions, responding to complex harm, and coordinating regional services 6.From restorative to regenerative reform: Developing systems-for-improving-systems

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Book SynopsisPrison Segregation: The Limits of Law explores the use of segregation in English prisons by examining how law is used and experienced, and how human rights are upheld. It draws on empirical research, through interviews with staff and prisoners, to understand how law works' (or not) in a site of the prison, which is traditionally characterised by real imbalances of power. The book draws on one of the first research studies of its kind: an in-depth ethnographic study of law, culture and norms within the segregation unit. It adopts a socio-legal perspective to explore: (i) how segregation is and should be used in prisons, and how the law sets the parameters of that usage (in theory); (ii) the complex web of laws and rules, as applies to segregation, and their relationship with the actors responsible for their implementation; (iii) how laws and rules can be undermined by the culture and context within which they are implemented. It relies on the voices of prisoners and sTrade ReviewA truly unique, in-depth analysis of life inside a solitary confinement unit, conducted by a scholar with a rare combination of talents. Brown brings together a sophisticated legal perspective on the "rule of law" in an often lawless environment and a skilled ethnographer’s knack for identifying contextual nuance and truly hearing the voices of the persons with whom she interacts. It is at times a searing, brutally frank depiction of the extraordinarily powerful institutional forces at work in this prison-within-a-prison, forces that can deeply impact and harm the persons involuntarily confined inside, to be sure, but also, in different ways, the staff who choose to work there as well as those who attempt to study it. Must reading for anyone interested in the psychological and moral toll of our current penal regimes. Prof. Craig HaneyDistinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California Santa Cruz.In illuminating the conditions and relationships in a prison segregation unit, Dr Brown shows the limited usefulness of the rule-of-law standards where staffing practices and perceptions are at least as important as formal rules in structuring official discretion. Anyone interested in the prison system or in official discretion more widely should read this book.Prof. David FeldmanEmeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, University of CambridgeSegregation holds prisoners at the edge of what the law allows — and sometimes beyond. Ellie Brown’s invaluable and deeply researched book explores the history, law and culture of a process of isolation that is harmful and dehumanising, including to staff. Mr. Alex Sutherland Chair of the IMB at HMP WhitemoorIn few places are human rights put to their test the way they are in prisons. The deepest end of a prison is its segregation unit where people are isolated and literally at the hands of the authorities. To what degree and in what way does law penetrate these prisons within the prison? This book answers this critical question by applying a socio-legal method through which not only law in the books but also law in practice can be understood. As a result, this highly innovative and excellent study uncovers a hollow approach to justice in a place where it is needed the most. Prof. Peter Scharff SmithProfessor in the Sociology of Law, Oslo UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Defined Terms and Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Law and sociology: bridging the divide 3. Methods: at the margins, without trust and the fragmented self 4. Law and contradiction: use of segregation 5. Law and discretion: culture of segregation 6. Law and context: application, accessibility and authority 7. Challenge, change and hope Annex 1- Case law summary Annex 2 - GOoD reasons Annex 3- Interview schedules Annex 4 - Participant information sheet and consent form

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Book SynopsisDrawing on experiences from other jurisdictions within the UK, Criminalising Coercive Control explores the challenges and potential successes which may be faced in implementing Northern Irelandâs new domestic abuse offence.A specific offence of domestic abuse was introduced in Northern Ireland in March 2021. This represents a crucial development in Northern Irelandâs response to domestic abuse. The new legislation has the effect of criminalising coercive and controlling behaviour, thereby bringing Northern Ireland into line with other jurisdictions within the UK, and also with relevant human rights standards in this regard. The book begins with a discussion regarding the offence itself and the underpinning domestic abuse policy in Northern Ireland. Subsequent chapters explore further measures which may be needed to respond effectively to domestic abuse in Northern Ireland, by drawing upon the experiences of other jurisdictions of criminalising coercive control. These rTable of Contents1. IntroductionVanessa Bettinson and Ronagh McQuigg2. Introducing a Criminal Offence of Domestic Abuse in Northern Ireland: Comparative Insights into Criminalising Coercive ControlVanessa Bettinson and Ronagh McQuigg3. Understanding and Responding to Coercive Control: Lessons Learned from England and Wales Charlotte Barlow4. The Justice Challenge for Policing Northern Ireland: Training Police Officers in the Law of Control.Rob Ewin5. Prosecuting Domestic Abuse in Northern Ireland: The Challenges of the Trial ProcessJeremy Robson6. What Might ‘Successful’ Coercive Control Prosecutions Look Like?Antonia Porter7. Taking Learnings from Other Jurisdictions on Supporting Victims and Survivors of Coercive ControlSonya McMullan

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Book SynopsisThis book makes a unique contribution to the internationalisation of criminological knowledge about gender and desistance through a qualitative cross-national exploration of the female route out of crime in Sweden and England. By situating the female desistance journey in diverse penal cultures, the study addresses two major gaps in the literature: the neglect of critical explorations of gender in desistance-related processes, and the lack of internationally comparative perspectives on the lived experience of desistance.Grounded in a feminist methodology underpinned by a critical humanist perspective this book draws on 24 life-story narrative interviews with female desisters across Sweden and England. The discussion covers departure points, qualitative experiences of criminal justice, as well as barriers and ladders' in the female route out. While some cross-national symmetry is detected, particularly in the areas of victimisation and issues around short custodial sentencesTrade Review"Linnéa Österman's book makes an important contribution to the international literature on desistance. Not only does it focus on women’s experiences of desistance but, more significantly, by comparing the experiences of female desisters in England and Sweden, it highlights the role of broader penal cultures – characterised as ‘Anglophone Excess’ and ‘Nordic Exceptionalism’ – in shaping barriers to desistance and routes out of crime."– Gill McIvor, Professor of Criminology and Co-Director of the SCCJR, University of Stirling, UKTable of Contents1. Introducing penal cultures and female desistance 2. Gender, penality and desistance in cross-national contexts 3. Researching women’s journey towards desistance in diverse cultures and contexts 4. Mapping the female offender’s journey: Points of departure 5. Penological landscapes and female perspectives: ‘Nordic Exceptionalism’ and ‘Anglophone Excess’ 6. The female route out: Barriers, ‘ladders’ and the role of relationality 7. The female route out: Employment, inclusion and participation 8. Concluding thoughts on penal cultures and female desistance Appendix

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Book SynopsisIn recent times the question of private sector involvement in public affairs has become framed in altogether new terms. Across Europe, there has been a growth in various forms of public-private cooperation in building and maintaining (new) penal institutions and an increasing presence of private companies offering security services within penal institutions as well as delivering security goods such as electronic monitoring and other equipment to penal authorities. Such developments are part of a wider trend towards privatising and marketising security. Bringing together key scholars in criminology and penology from across Europe and beyond, this book maps and describes trends of privatising punishment throughout Europe, paying attention both to prisons and community sanctions. In doing so, it initiates a continent-wide dialogue among academics and key public and private actors on the future of privatisation in Europe. Debates on the privatisation of punishment in Europe are sTable of Contents1.Privatising punishment in Europe? An agenda for research and policy, Tom Daems and Tom Vander Beken 2.Privatizing criminal justice: An historical analysis of entrepreneurship and innovation, Malcolm M. Feeley 3.Privatization of punishment in Poland, Krzysztof Krajewski 4.Privatization of punishment in Belgium, Danique Gudders and Tom Daems 5. Privatising probation in England and Wales: Manufacturing a crisis to create a market? Lol Burke 6. French probation and prisoner resettlement: Involuntary ‘privatisation’ and corporatism, Martine Herzog-Evans 7. Electronically monitoring offenders as ‘coercive connectivity’: Commerce and penality in surveillance capitalism, Mike Nellis 8.Uneven business: Privatization of immigration detention in Europe, Michael Flynn, Matthew B. Flynn and Eryn Wagnon 9.What is lost when punishment is privatized? Lucia Zedner

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Book SynopsisHandbook on the Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions, the third volume in the Routledge ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Series, includes contemporary essays on the consequences of punishment during an era of mass incarceration. The Handbook Series offers state-of-the-art volumes on seminal and topical issues that span the fields of sentencing and corrections. In that spirit, the editors gathered contributions that summarize what is known in each topical area and also identify emerging theoretical, empirical, and policy work. The book is grounded in the current knowledge about the specific topics, but also includes new, synthesizingmaterial that reflects the knowledge of the leading minds in the field.Following an editors' introduction, the volume is divided into four sections. First, two contributions situate and contextualize the volume by providing insight into the growth of mass punishment over the past three decades and an overview of the Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION The Consequences of Sentencing and Punishment Decisions I. CONSEQUENCES OF PUNISHMENT DECISIONS 1. Historical Trends in Punishment and the Lens of American Federalism 2. Collateral Sanctions: The Intended Collateral Consequences of Felony Convictions II. BROAD IMPACTS 3. The Collateral Consequences of Incarceration for Housing 4. Residential Insecurities and Neighborhood Quality Following Incarceration 5. Impact of Incarceration on Employment Prospects 6. Incarceration, Reentry, and Health 7. The Psychological Effects of Contact with the Criminal Justice System 8. Impacts of Incarceration on Children and Families 9. Impacts of Conviction and Imprisonment for Women III. CONSEQUENCES OF SENTENCING DECISIONS 10. Punished for being Punished: Collateral Consequences of a Drug Offense Conviction 11. Compounded Stigmatization: Collateral Consequences of a Sex Offense Conviction 12. The Hidden Consequences of Visible Juvenile Records 13. Deportation as a Collateral Consequence IV. INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS 14. Mass Jail Incarceration and Its Consequences 15. Collateral Consequences of Pretrial Detention 16. The Impact of Restrictive Housing on Inmate Behavior: A Systematic Review of the Evidence 17. The Impacts of Privatization in Corrections: The State of Evidence and Recommendations for Moving Forward V. BROAD IMPLICATIONS 18. “Raise the Age” Legislation as a Prevention Approach to Address Mass Incarceration 19. Mass Incarceration in Jail and Family Visitation 20. The Hardest Time: Gang Members in Total Institutions 21. Exportation Hypothesis: Bringing Prison Violence Home to the Community

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Book SynopsisThis second edition of the Handbook of Victims and Victimology presents a comprehensively revised and updated set of essays, bringing together internationally recognised scholars and practitioners to offer substantial research informed overviews within their specialist fields of investigation. This handbook is divided into five parts, with each part addressing a different theme within victimology: Part I offers a scene-setting exploration of new developments in the field, enduring issues that remain relatively unchanged and the gaps and traps within the contemporary victimological agenda Part II examines of the complex dimensions to victim experiences as structured by gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality and intersectionality Part III reflects on the problems and possibilities of formulating policy responses in the light of the changing appreciation of the nature and extent of victimhood Part IV focused on the vTrade Review"This anthology is essential reading for anyone seeking a contemporary critical understanding of victimology. Edited by one of the world's leading experts in the field, the Handbook covers a broad range of important topics and it is directly relevant to policy and practice." - Walter S. DeKeseredy, Anna Deane Carlson Endowed Chair of Social Sciences, Director of the Research Center on Violence, and Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, West Virginia University, USA "This broad-ranging volume is a significant contribution to victimological scholarship, building on the success of the first edition to extend its reach and scope and raising fundamental questions about how we view and treat victims of crime, and other social harms as an international community. It is a must read for scholars, students and policy makers interested in all aspects of society’s response to harm and risk." - Matthew Hall, Professor of Law & Criminal Justice, Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Lincoln Law School, University of Lincoln, UK "The Handbook of Victims and Victimology is a collection of essays that offer comprehensive, comparative and critical analyses of complex dimensions of victim experiences as structured by gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality and intersectionality. Looking back into history, together with reflecting on contemporary victimisation and victim policy developments, the new edition offers a fresh and inspiring look at both old and new victimological issues and challenges. Moreover, it offers a valuable and much needed vision of the future of victimological theory and practice, which is well-structured and shaped in the form of an agenda for a (critical) victimology." - Vesna Nikolić-Ristanović, Director of the Victimology Society of Serbia and Professor at the Faculty for Special Education and Rehabilitation, University of Belgrade, Serbia "A few decades ago Victimology was described unflatteringly as a ‘hotchpotch’ of ideas, concepts and theories. Contrary, this second edition of the widely respected Handbook confirms that Victimology is now a unifying social science. Sandra Walklate and an array of authors stimulate thinking about victims of conventional and non-conventional crime, criminal victimisation, consequences of victimisation and responses (individual and collective) to crime and victimisation. The thorough and comprehensive analysis features debate on the role of the victim in modern criminal justice and on emerging issues and policy on victims’ rights and victim assistance. It focuses on the plight of vulnerable and disenfranchised victims of domestic and transnational crimes. Further, it draws attention to current developments in law, policy and procedure. The Handbook is ideal to challenge undergraduate and post-graduate students with fresh research and new concepts. It is also an excellent resource for researchers, lecturers, criminal justice practitioners, victims’ rights advocates and victim assistance workers, as well as informative for law and policy makers. In fact, it is an engaging read for anyone with an interest in criminal victimisation." - Michael O’Connell APM, Commissioner for Victims’ Rights, South Australia "Researchers, policy-makers, social service practitioners, instructors, and engaged students surely will find specific chapters in this handbook to be valuable resources for reference purposes. The numerous contributors share their insights about the suffering as well as the steps toward recovery of a wide variety of crime victims in a great many different societies. Taken collectively, the broad scope of these readings provides useful coverage of emerging concerns, enduring issues, theoretical matters, opposing views, policy alternatives, and proposed solutions to practical problems." - Andrew Karmen, Professor of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY, USA Table of ContentsIntroduction and Overview (Sandra Walklate) Part I: Perspectives on Victims and Victimisation Introduction to Part I (Sandra Walklate) 1. A Question of History (Barry Godfrey) 2. Theoretical Perspectives on Victimisation (Paul Rock) 3. The social epidemiology of crime victimization: The paradox of prevention (Tim Hope) 4. The Impact of Crime: Victimisation, Harm and Resilience (Simon Green and Anthony Pemberton) Part II: Victims, Victimology and ‘Difference’ Introduction to Part II (Sandra Walklate) 5. Feminist Voices, Gender and Victimisation (Pamela Davies) 6. Child Victims of Human Rights Violation (Elizabeth Stanley) 7. Victims of Hate Crime (Neil Chakraborti) 8. Sexuality and victimisation (Leslie J Moran) 9. Intersectionality and Victimisation (Patrina Duhaney) Part III: Policy Directions and Service Delivery Introduction to Part III (Sandra Walklate) 10. Interventions and services for victims of crime (Joanna Shapland) 11. The victim in court (Samantha Fairclough and Imogen Jones) 12. Restorative Justice and Victims of Crime: Directions and developments (Meredith Rossner) 13. Theorising victimisation through the individual and collective reparations programs for Indian Residential School abuse (Konstantin Petroukhov) Part IV: Comparative Perspectives Introduction to Part IV (Sandra Walklate) 14. A glass half full, or half empty? On the implementation of the EU’s Victims Directive regarding police reception and specialized support (Jan Van Dijk and Marc Groenhuijsen) 15. Victims support in policy and legal process in Australia: Still an ambivalent and contested space (Tracey Booth and Kerry Carrington) 16. Looking into Asia: Managing crime through victim policy? (Susyan Jou and Bill Hebenton) Part V: Other Visions of Victims and Victimology Introduction to Part V (Sandra Walklate) 17. Crime as a Social Relation of Power: Reframing the ‘Ideal Victim’ of Corporate Crimes (David Whyte) 18. We Are All Complicit: Victimization and Crimes of the Powerful (Dawn L. Rothe and David Kauzlarich) 19. Cultural Victimology Revisited: Synergies of Risk, Fear and Resilience (Gabe Mythen and Will McGowan) Conclusion: Developing an agenda for a (critical) victimology (Sandra Walklate)

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Book SynopsisThroughout the western world public opinion has played an important role in shaping criminal justice policy. At the same time opinion polls repeatedly demonstrate that the public knows little about crime and justice, and holds negative views of the criminal justice system. This book, consisting of chapters from leading authorities in the field, is concerned to address this problem, and draws upon research in a number of different countries to address the issues arising from this state of affairs. Its main aims are: to explore the changing and evolving nature of public attitudes to sentencing to examine the factors that influence public opinion and to bring together recent international research which has demonstrated ways in which public attitudes can be changed to propose specific strategies to respond to the crisis in public confidence in criminal justice. Trade Review'The book makes a much needed and timely contribution to building a body of knowledge that deconstructs current misconceptions about public attitudes to punishment.' − SCOLAG Journal 'This book provides comprehensive coverage of some of the important issues linked to changing attitudes to punishment, and provides some fascinating and accessible insights .. as a consequence it is a significant contribution to furthering understanding'; 'At the end of the day I can think of very little else that that I would have wished had been included in this excellent text, and little that ought to be excised.' − Commonwealth Judicial Journal 'The volume will undoubtedly serve as a stimulus for more research on public opinion and attitudes about crime, thereby contributing to improvements in penal policy.' − British Journal of Criminology Table of Contents1. Public Attitudes to Punishment: The Context by Julian V. Roberts and Mike Hough 2. Measuring Attitudes to Sentencing by Loretta J. Stalans 3. Public Opinion and the Nature of Community Penalties by Julian V. Roberts 4. Cross-National Attitudes Towards Punishment by Pat Mayhew and John Kesteren 5. The Evolution of Public Attitudes to Punishment in Western and Eastern Europe by Helmut Kury, Obergfell-Fuchs and Ursula Smartt 6. Public and Judicial Attitudes to Punishment in Switzerland by André Kuhn 7. Public Support for Correctional Rehabilitation: Change or Consistency? by Francis T. Cullen, Jennifer A. Pealer, Bonnie S. Fisher, Brandon K. Applegate and Shannon A. Santana 8. Attitudes to Punishment in the US - Punitive and Liberal Opinions by John Doble 9. How Malleable are Attitudes to Crime and Punishment? Findings from a British Deliberative Poll by Mike Hough and Alison Park 10. Improving Public Knowledge about Crime and Criminal Justice by Catriona Mirrlees-Black 11. Strategies for Changing Public Attitudes to Punishment by David Indermaur and Mike Hough 12. Privileging Public Attitudes Towards Sentencing by Rod Morgan

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Book SynopsisSex offenders, and in particular paedophiles, have been the subject of much political and media attention, producing intensive debates about the best way of dealing with them. This book explores these issues, evaluating the measures in use or being considered, including drug treatment, MAPPA, the use of the Sex Offender Register, restorative justice techniques, and treatment programmes. It is concerned with high-risk sex offenders both when they are sentenced to a community order, and also when they are released back into the community after a custodial sentence. The introductory section opens with a discussion on how terms such as paedophilia are constructed and viewed, and then looks at how government policy regarding sex offending has developed over recent years. Section two looks at issues concerned with risk management, questioning whether enough is being done to monitor the risk that high-risk offenders pose when released into society; whilst section three, on risk reduction covers the main methods of treatment, including sex offender treatment programmes, pharmacotherapy (chemical castration) and restorative and reintegration techniques. Section Four focuses on specific offender groups; including female sexual offenders, sexual harm by youth, mentally disordered sexual offenders and intellectual disabled offenders. These assess in what ways these offenders are different to the 'norm' and look at how we should be dealing and treating these differences. The final section looks at social and moral responsibilities, including the patterns, prevention and protection of cyber-sex offences and media constructions of and reactions to paedophilia. In the final chapter the concept of dignity is addressed and the balance between community protection and the rights of sex offenders involved is evaluated.Trade Review'Karen Harrison, the editor, closes the preface with this comment: "whether he overall aim (to identify methods to prevent further sexual victimization) has been achieved is for the reader to assess". According to this humble reader, this aim is fully achieved if, and only if, professionals consider the conclusions reached by the authors. This is an extraordinary book that truly opens the eyes. All professionals wanting to really understand paedophilia should consider this book compulsory reading. It not only includes difficult theoretical questions but also raises practical challenges which must be taken into consideration when researching and in practice.' – Olga Sanchez De Ribera, PhD Student, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge in the Howard Journal Vol 49 No 5. December 2010Table of ContentsPrefacePart 1: Introduction 1. Paedophilia: Definitions and Aetiology 2. High-risk Sex offenders: Issues of PolicyPart 2: Risk Management 3. Effective Multi-agency Public Protection: Learning from the Research 4. The Sex Offender Register, Community Notification and Some Reflections on PrivacyPart 3: Treatment and Risk Reduction 5. An Introduction to Sex Offender Treatment Programmes and their Risk Reduction Efficacy 6. The Use of Pharmacotherapy with High-risk Sex Offenders 7. Restorative Justice and the Reintegration of High-risk Sex OffendersPart 4: Special Offender Groups 8. Female Sexual Offenders: A Special Sub-group9. Enhancing Community Collaboration to Stop Sexual Harm by Youth 10. Mentally Disordered Sex Offenders 11. Intellectualy Disabled Sexual Offenders: Subgroup Profiling and Recidivism after Outpatient TreatmentPart 4: Social and Moral Responsibilities 12. Cyber-sex Offenders: Patterns, Prevention and Protection 13. Media Constructions of and Reactions to Paedophilia in Society 14. Dignity and Dangerousness: Sex Offenders and the Community – Human Rights in the Balance?

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Book SynopsisWritten by some of the world's leading penologists, this collection of accessible essays looks at why prison persists, why prisoner populations are rapidly rising in many countries and principles and strategies that could be adopted to radically reduce our reliance upon imprisonment.Trade Review'Finally, David Scott's edited collection Why Prison? will have the most relevance to prison practitioners and will also have the broadest appeal. It offers an impressive array of leading scholars dissecting the emergence of global hyper-incarceration and strategies for change.' Jamie Bennett, Prison Service Journal'This collection of exceptional scholarship reflects a critical juncture in penal reform that moves the discourse beyond that of mass incarceration. The contributing authors and their research on the inefficacy of incarceration make a compelling case for penal reform. A truly innovative, thought-provoking and engaging text, Why Prison? unearths seldom-considered lines of enquiry rather than merely following the well-worn paths that have been previously pursued by penological scholars. In sum, editor Scott and colleagues have done a superb job of providing readers with a profound opportunity to participate in a creative and comprehensive conversation about one of the essential social questions of our time: 'why prison?'' H. Bennett Wilcox III, Criminal Law and Criminal JusticeTable of ContentsForeword: on stemming the tide Thomas Mathiesen; 1. Why prison? Posing the question David Scott; 2. Prisons and social structure in late-capitalist societies Alessandro De Giorgi; 3. The prison paradox in neoliberal Britain Emma Bell; 4. Crafting the neoliberal state: workfare, prisonfare, and social insecurity Loïc Wacquant; 5. Pleasure, punishment and the professional middle class Magnus Hörnqvist; 6. Penal spectatorship and the culture of punishment Michelle Brown; 7. Prison and the public sphere: toward a democratic theory of penal order Vanessa Barker; 8. The iron cage of prison studies Mark Brown; 9. The prison and national identity: citizenship, punishment and the sovereign state Emma Kaufman and Mary Bosworth; 10. Punishing the detritus and the damned: penal and semi-penal institutions in Liverpool Vickie Cooper and Joe Sim; 11. Why prison? Incarceration and the great recession Keally McBride; 12. Ghosts of the past, present, and future of penal reform in the United States Marie Gottschalk; 13. Schooling the carceral state: challenging the school to prison pipeline Erica Meiners; 14. Why no prisons? Julia Oparah; 15. Unequalled in pain David Scott.

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