Holistic Responses To Reducing Reoffending

Author : Ian Mahoney,Rahmanara Chowdhury
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040044384

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Holistic Responses to Reducing Reoffending by Ian Mahoney,Rahmanara Chowdhury Pdf

Offering a range of theoretical and conceptual ideas as well as practical examples, this book provides a detailed insight into holistic opportunities for promoting desistance, reducing reoffending, and supporting (re)settlement and (re)integration. Providing a fresh lens through which to view existing debates within desistance and (re)settlement literature, the book encourages different perspectives and a new framing of current approaches. To this purpose, each chapter considers what embedding a person-centered holistic approach within the criminal justice system might look like, including ways of working within the confines of current processes, potential ethical considerations and how to maximize the potential impact to reduce reoffending. Interdisciplinary in approach, Holistic Responses to Reducing Reoffending will appeal to students, scholars, practitioners and policymakers within criminology, criminal justice, penology and prison studies.

Author : Isla Masson,Natalie Booth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000604252

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The Routledge Handbook of Women's Experiences of Criminal Justice by Isla Masson,Natalie Booth Pdf

This Handbook brings together the voices of a range of contributors interested in the many varied experiences of women in criminal justice systems, and who are seeking to challenge the status quo. Although there is increasing literature and research on gender, and certain aspects of the criminal justice system (often Western focused), there is a significant gap in the form of a Handbook that brings together these important gendered conversations. This essential book explores research and theory on how women are perceived, handled, and experience criminal justice within and across different jurisdictions, with particular consideration of gendered and disparate treatment of women as law-breakers. There is also consideration of women’s experiences through an intersectional lens, including race and class, as well as feminist scholarship and activism. The Handbook contains 47 unique chapters with nine overarching themes (Lessons from history and theory; Routes into the criminal justice system; Intersectionality; Sentencing and the courts and community punishments; Specific offences; Incarcerated women’s experiences; Mothers and families; Rehabilitation and reintegration; Practitioner relationships), and each theme includes contributions from different countries as well as the experiences of contributors from different stages in their own journey. International and interdisciplinary in scope, this Handbook is essential reading for scholars and students of criminology, sociology, social policy, social work, and law. It will also be of interest to practitioners, such as social workers, probation officers, prison officers, and policy makers.

Author : Anne-Marie McAlinden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847313584

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The Shaming of Sexual Offenders by Anne-Marie McAlinden Pdf

Winner of the 2008 British Society of Criminology Book Prize Sex offenders, particularly those who offend against children, feature prominently in contemporary law and order debates. Child sexual abuse is a small component of the broader category of 'gendered and sexualised violence' which causes significant trauma for victims yet continues to evade conventional approaches to justice. This is evidenced not only by the low number of prosecutions, due mostly to low levels of reporting and evidential difficulties at trial, but also by the failure of the justice system to prevent re-offending, largely due to the limited availability and effectiveness of prison treatment programmes. Following Braithwaite's dichotomy of 'reintegrative' and 'disintegrative' shaming, this book argues that contemporary popular and state-led responses to the risk posed by sex offenders are largely disintegrative in nature. At best, the offender may be labelled, stigmatised and ostracised from the community, while at worst, he may be subjected to violence and vigilante action and ultimately return to offending behaviour. The failure of these retributive responses means there is considerable scope for exploring alternative forms of justice and their potential for improving the outcome for victims, offenders and communities affected by sexual offences. This book examines the controversy of whether restorative justice can be applied to child sexual abuse as one of the most intractable of contemporary societal problems, and if so, what special considerations might apply. Although restorative schemes with sex offenders are in short supply, a few initiatives have developed in Canada and parts of the United States which have effected significant benefits in 'reintegrative shaming.' The book examines whether such ad hoc schemes may be of general application with child sexual abuse and whether they may be implemented on a more holistic basis.

Author : Claire M. Renzetti,Jeffrey L. Edleson,Raquel Kennedy Bergen
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483378114

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Sourcebook on Violence Against Women by Claire M. Renzetti,Jeffrey L. Edleson,Raquel Kennedy Bergen Pdf

The Third Edition of the comprehensive Sourcebook on Violence Against Women by Claire M. Renzetti, Jeffrey L. Edleson, and Raquel Kennedy Bergen covers the current state of research, theory, prevention, and intervention regarding violence against women. The book’s 15 chapters are divided into three parts: theoretical and methodological issues in researching violence against women; types of violence against women; and, new to this edition, programs that work. Featuring new chapters, pedagogy, sections on controversies in the field, and autobiographical essays by leaders in grassroots anti-violence work, the Third Edition has been designed to encourage discussion and debate, to address issues of diversity and cultural contexts, and to examine inequalities of race and ethnicity, social class, physical ability, sexual orientation, and geographic location.

Author : Philip Bean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429824951

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Criminal Justice and Privatisation by Philip Bean Pdf

Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice. Privatisation has existed within the British criminal justice system at least since the early 1990s, but the privatisation of the Probation Service in 2014 was a significant landmark in this process and signalled a larger programme of privatisation to come. Criminal Justice and Privatisation works to examine the impact of privatisation on the criminal justice system, and to explore the potential effects of privatising other areas including the police and the security industry. By including chapters from practitioners and academics alike, the book offers an expansive overview of the criminal justice system, as well as observations of the effect of privatisation at ground level. By also exploring the way the private companies are paid, how they operate and what private companies do, this book offers an insight into and the future of privatisation within the public sector. Written in a clear and direct style this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural studies, social theory and those interested in learning about the effects of privatisation.

Author : Fergus McNeill,Bill Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134042708

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Reducing Reoffending by Fergus McNeill,Bill Whyte Pdf

Reducing Reoffending provides a critical overview of social work and community justice in Scotland, taking full account of recent developments. The book is divided into three comprehensive sections. Part one of the book provides a critical analysis of the challenge of reducing reoffending in Scotland and locates this challenge within its historical context. Part one also reviews the available evidence about when, how and why people stop offending; about desistance from crime. This analysis exposes not only the complexities of desistance processes, but also the many difficulties that offenders face in making the related transition. Part two of the book provides an account of the legal contexts of criminal justice social work services in Scotland analysing both the role that social work plays in the sentencing process and its role in supervising offenders in the community. The final part the book addresses questions of how the practice of supervision might be best developed so as to support desistance and reduce reoffending, though the books final conclusion is that reducing reoffending requires a much broader commitment to promoting and realising justice in the community.

Author : Rosemary Sheehan,Gill McIvor,Chris Trotter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136839931

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Working with Women Offenders in the Community by Rosemary Sheehan,Gill McIvor,Chris Trotter Pdf

Though many more women offenders are supervised in the community than in custody, much less is known about their needs and effective approaches to their supervision, support and treatment. Whilst there has been recent attention paid to responding to the needs of women in prison, negligible attention has been paid to women exiting prison, or on community based orders, and what is needed to work with them to reduce re-offending or entry into prison. Contributions to this book challenge policy-makers and corrections systems to concentrate more on community provision for women offenders and resist popular calls for more punitive responses to all offenders, women included. Contributors come from a wide range of countries including Australia, Canada, UK and USA. They argue that the criminogenic lens applied to women’s offending must be gender-responsive if systems are to be successful at addressing the disadvantage and risk associated with offending behaviour. Working With Women Offenders in the Community builds on ideas presented in the editors’ previous book, What Works With Women Offenders (2007), extending the focus particularly on women offenders in the community rather than in prison. This book concentrates on women who have committed criminal offences and who may have been placed on probation or other community based court orders or who have been released from prison on parole. It discusses the work done by professional workers including probation officers, community corrections officers and specialist case managers in areas such as drug treatment, housing, mental health or employment programmes. This book will be of interest to professional probation officers, case managers, drug treatment workers and others who work with women offenders. It will also be essential reading for students of criminology, social work, psychology, sociology and other disciplines who have an interest in women offenders.

Author : Simone Braverman, Robert Nicholson
Publisher : IELTS-Blog.com
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780987300928

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IELTS 5 Practice Tests, Academic Set 1 by Simone Braverman, Robert Nicholson Pdf

Academic Set 1 from 'High Scorer’s Choice' series contains 5 full length IELTS practice tests (no. 1-5) and is a must-have study tool to achieve a high band score in IELTS. These tests feel as authentic as the real IELTS papers, and doing them at home is a great way to estimate your real IELTS score. Being a demanding test, IELTS requires a thorough preparation and these tests will help you master exam strategies, polish your techniques and raise your confidence. In this book you will find: •5 full-length Academic IELTS practice tests with answers •Listening recordings (downloadable mp3) with transcripts, locations of answers in sentences are underlined •Sample speaking test recordings (downloadable mp3) with examiner’s report on every student’s performance and an approximate Band score •Reading Answer Help chapter shows why correct answers are the right ones and where they are located in the passages •All writing tasks have model answers provided

Author : David Watson,Janice West
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350313262

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Social Work Process and Practice by David Watson,Janice West Pdf

This new textbook examines the knowledge, skills and values that underpin and inform current social work practice and processes. With a clear focus on skills, social work processes and the suitability of different methods, Watson offers students a toolkit for applying theoretical frameworks to actual practice situations.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 0215038797

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The proposed abolition of the Youth Justice Board by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee Pdf

The Government has proposed that the Youth Justice Board (YJB) should be abolished, and its inclusion in the Public Bodies Bill is currently the subject of 'ping pong' between the two Houses of Parliament. The YJB is responsible for: advising the Justice Secretary on the operation of the youth justice system; monitoring the performance of that system; purchasing places for, and placing, children and young people remanded or sentenced to custody; disseminating effective practice; making grants to local authorities and others; and commissioning research and publishing information. The Government wants to transfer YJB's functions to a Youth Justice Division of the Ministry of Justice, arguing that this will restore direct Ministerial accountability. The Committee point out that if that does happen, certain steps must be taken to ensure that the new Division: is not part of NOMS; benefits from the establishment of a genuinely and visibly independent Advisory Board; improves the dissemination of best practice; and exercises 'light touch' oversight of Youth Offending Teams.

Author : Joseph E. Couture,Canada. Solicitor General Canada,Native Counselling Services of Alberta,Canada. Aboriginal Corrections Policy Unit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Alternatives to imprisonment
ISBN : UIUC:30112055616343

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A Cost-benefit Analysis of Hollow Water's Community Holistic Circle Healing Process by Joseph E. Couture,Canada. Solicitor General Canada,Native Counselling Services of Alberta,Canada. Aboriginal Corrections Policy Unit Pdf

Provides a holistic cost/benefit evaluation of the Community Holistic Circle Healing (CHCH) strategy in Hollow Water First Nation, which is the most mature healing process in Canada.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 0215055187

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Youth Justice by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee Pdf

Public authorities have a duty to ensure looked after children are not at greater risk of being drawn into the criminal justice system than other children. The relevant authorities must continue to support looked after children and care leavers when they are in, and when they leave, custody. The substantial decrease since 2006/07 in the number of young people entering the criminal justice system for the first time is welcomed but looked after children have not benefited from this shift to the same extent as other children. The Youth Justice Board has done excellent work to halve the youth custodial population over the past decade but continues to spend £246 million a year detaining a small fraction of young offenders. Recommendations include: a statutory threshold to enshrine in legislation the principle that only the most serious and prolific young offenders should be placed in custody; devolving the custody budget to enable local authorities to invest in effective alternatives to custody; and more action to reduce the number of young people who breach the terms of their community sentences and the number of young black men in custody. The aim of improving the basic literacy of offenders, as outlined in the Transforming Youth Custody consultation paper is endorsed, but is it most useful to focus resources on the secure estate, given that the average length of stay is currently 79 days? The greater focus should be on improving transition between custody and the community, and on improving provision in the community and incentivising schools and colleges to take back difficult students.

Author : Curt Taylor Griffiths,Yvon Dandurand,Danielle Murdoch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Crime prevention
ISBN : UCBK:C099187307

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The Social Reintegration of Offenders and Crime Prevention by Curt Taylor Griffiths,Yvon Dandurand,Danielle Murdoch Pdf

Author : Anthea Hucklesby,Lystra Hagley-Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134003990

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Prisoner Resettlement by Anthea Hucklesby,Lystra Hagley-Dickinson Pdf

Prisoner resettlement is high on current political and policy agendas. The high reconviction rates of ex-prisoners have been acknowledged for many years but the rapidly rising prison population has meant that more prisoners than ever before are released. This together with the pressure this puts on to the infrastructure of the prison estate and the publication of two influential reports which highlighted the problems faced by prisoners leaving prison has concentrated attention on attempts to ensure that prisoners do not return to prison once released. The resettlement of prisoners is now a priority policy area linked directly to Government initiatives to reduce reoffending. The renewed policy interest in prisoners resettlement forms the context of this volume, which brings together current knowledge and understanding about prisoners resettlement. The book draws on the contributors extensive experience as researchers and practitioners in the field and includes contributions from acknowledged experts. Prisoner Resettlement provides a comprehensive review and analysis of resettlement policy and practice in England and Wales in the early part of the 21st century. In particular it: critically reviews current policy, theory, practice and research on prisoners resettlement explores practice issues through case studies of two resettlement initiatives and an examination of accommodation provision and voluntary sector involvement in prisoners resettlement; and examines the particular issues raised by the resettlement of different groups of prisoners including women, minority ethnic groups, prolific and priority offenders and high-risk offenders.

Author : Eve S. Buzawa,Carl G. Buzawa,Evan D. Stark
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 995 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506311128

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Responding to Domestic Violence by Eve S. Buzawa,Carl G. Buzawa,Evan D. Stark Pdf

This new edition of the bestselling Responding to Domestic Violence explores the response to domestic violence today, not only by the criminal justice system, but also by public and non-profit social service and health care agencies. After providing a brief theoretical overview of the causes of domestic violence and its prevalence in our society, the authors cover such key topics as barriers to intervention, variations in arrest practices, the role of state and federal legislation, and case prosecution. Focusing on both victims and offenders, the book includes unique chapters on models for judicial intervention, domestic violence and health, and children and domestic violence. In addition, this edition provides an in-depth discussion of the concept of coercive control in domestic violence and its importance in understanding victim needs. Finally, this volume includes international perspectives in order to broaden the reader's understanding of alternative responses to the problem of domestic violence.