Description
Book SynopsisThrough illuminating case studies and recent empirical research, this book studies the critical relationship between social policy and crime management with an in-depth review of current trends and a look at the potential contribution of social policy initiatives to both crime causation and cessation.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Hazel Kemshall
1 An International Crime Decline: Lessons for Social Welfare Crime Policy? 5
Paul Knepper
2 Advise, Assist and Befriend: Can Probation Supervision Support Desistance? 23
Deirdre Healy
3 The Relational Context of Desistance: Some Implications and Opportunities for Social Policy 41
Beth Weaver
4 ‘Regulating the Poor’: Observations on the ‘Structural Coupling’ of Welfare, Criminal Justice and the Voluntary Sector in a ‘Big Society’ 59
John J. Rodger
5 What Prospects Youth Justice? Children in Trouble in the Age of Austerity 77
Joe Yates
6 Bleak Times for Children? The Anti-social Behaviour Agenda and the Criminalization of Social Policy 93
Janet Jamieson
7 Social Citizenship and Social Security Fraud in the UK and Australia 111
Gráinne McKeever
Index 129
