Probation Practice And The New Penology

Author : John Deering
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317075554

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Probation Practice and the New Penology by John Deering Pdf

The criminal justice system has been in a state of flux in recent decades, accompanied by growing levels of insecurity and intolerance of crime and offenders among the general population. Along with government policy and practice, these developments are seen as contributing to an increasingly punitive system that imprisons more than ever before and seeks to punish and manage offenders in the community, rather than to attempt their rehabilitation. For these reasons, along with a loss of faith in rehabilitation, the probation service is now described by many as having become a law enforcement agency, charged by government with the assessment and management of risk, the protection of the public and the management and punishment of offenders, rather than their transformation into pro-social citizens. This book explores the extent to which practitioners within the National Probation Service for England and Wales and the National Offender Management Service ascribe to the values, attitudes and beliefs associated with these macro and mezzo level changes and how much their practice has changed accordingly. By viewing examples of 'real' practice through the lens of the modernisation of public services, managerialism and theories of organisation change, the book considers how 'real' practice is likely to emerge as something unpredictable and perhaps different from the intentions of both government/management and practitioners.

Author : Rob Canton,Jane Dominey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315407005

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Probation by Rob Canton,Jane Dominey Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to probation. It brings together themes of policy, theory and practice to help students and practitioners better understand the work of probation, its limitations, its potential, but above all its value. Setting probation in the context of the criminal justice system, the book explores its history, purposes and contemporary significance. It explains what probation is and the practical realities of working with offenders in the community. The book also covers the governance of probation and how policy and practice are responding to contemporary concerns about crime and community safety. This book encourages readers to appreciate the practical and theoretical strengths and shortcomings of contemporary probation practice. This revised and updated new edition includes a full description and discussion of recent reforms in the probation service and the Transforming Rehabilitation policy agenda. It also offers further discussion of international perspectives on probation, including international developments and collaborative efforts between countries. This book is essential reading for trainee probation officers and students taking courses on probation, offender management, treatment and rehabilitation, working with offenders and community justice.

Author : Maurice Vanstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351896931

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Supervising Offenders in the Community by Maurice Vanstone Pdf

In this work Maurice Vanstone provides an authoritative and original account of the history of probation. This invaluable reference tool offers readers a new way of reading probation history and presents an original context for thinking about current policy and practice. While the study is essentially UK-focused, it also provides a comparative perspective by exploring the history of probation in the USA. The author’s research has produced the only history of probation practice that does justice to the mixture of influences on the early probation service and paves the way for today’s more evidence-based approach. The work is based in part upon original documents and interviews with retired and serving officers. Supervising Offenders in the Community will greatly interest criminologists and criminal justice, social policy, social history and social work academics and postgraduate students.

Author : Fergus McNeill,Peter Raynor,Chris Trotter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136840074

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Offender Supervision by Fergus McNeill,Peter Raynor,Chris Trotter Pdf

This major new book brings together leading researchers in the field in order to describe and analyse internationally significant theoretical and empirical work on offender supervision, and to address the policy and practice implications of this work within and across jurisdictions. Arising out of the work of the international Collaboration of Researchers for the Effective Development of Offender Supervision (CREDOS), this book examines questions and issues that have arisen both within effectiveness research, and from research on desistance from offending. The book draws out the lessons that can be learned not just about ‘what works?’, but about how and why particular practices support desistance in specific jurisdictional, cultural and local contexts. Key themes addressed in this book include: New directions in theory and paradigms for practice Staff skills and effective offender supervision Different issues and challenges in improving offender supervision The role of families, ‘significant others’ and social networks Understanding and supporting compliance within supervision Exploring the social, political, organisational and historical contexts of offender supervision Offender Supervision will be essential reading for academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, policy makers, managers and practitioners interested in offender supervision.

Author : Ioan Durnescu,Fergus McNeill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136201158

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Understanding Penal Practice by Ioan Durnescu,Fergus McNeill Pdf

Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change – and how and why these changes differ in different contexts. Important though these analyses are, this book focuses not so much on the changing nature of institutions and systems, but rather the changing nature of penal practice and practitioners Bringing together leading researchers from around the world, this collection unites studies that aim to describe and critically analyse penal practice with studies that investigate its effectiveness and prescribe its future development. Reversing penology’s usual preoccupation with the prison, the book focuses mainly on penal practice in the community (i.e. on probation, parole, offender supervision and ‘community corrections’). The first part of the book focuses on understanding practice and practitioners, exploring how changing social, cultural, political, and organisational contexts influence practice, and how training, development, professional socialisation and other factors influence practitioners. The second part is concerned with how practitioners can be best supported to develop the skills and approaches that seem most likely to generate positive impacts. It contains accounts of new practice models and approaches, as well as reports of research projects seeking both to discover and to encourage effective practices. This book explores internationally significant and cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work on the cultures, practices, roles and impacts of frontline practitioners in delivering penal sanctions. As such, it will be of interest to researchers in criminology, social work and social policy as well as correctional policy makers and those involved in community supervision.

Author : Howard Abadinsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Parole
ISBN : 013715979X

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Probation & Parole by Howard Abadinsky Pdf

Author : Hough, Mike,Allen, Rob,Una Padel
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781861348128

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Reshaping Probation and Prisons by Hough, Mike,Allen, Rob,Una Padel Pdf

The Government has embarked on a programme of radical reform for the probation and prison services with the setting up of a National Offender Management Service (NOMS). The aim is to make the two services work more effectively together, and to promote private sector involvement in 'corrections' work. This groundbreaking volume takes a critical look at the different aspects of the NOMS proposals, at a time when the Government is still working out the detail of its reforms. No other academic publication has scrutinised the NOMS proposals so closely. Through six contributions from leading experts on probation and criminal justice the report identifies the risks attached to NOMS; assesses the prospects of success; provides ideas for reshaping government plans and presents an authoritative critique of a set proposals that could go badly wrong. The report will be crucial reading for politicians, civil servants and criminal justice managers. Senior probation and prison staff will find it of particular value.

Author : Howard Abadinsky
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Parole
ISBN : 013235005X

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Probation and Parole by Howard Abadinsky Pdf

Written by former community corrections professional, this book provides a state-of-the-art view of probation and parole. Offering a new two-color design, this revision contains updated material from agencies throughout the country and features 12 chapters that focus on all aspects of topic from the practitioner s point of view. Throughout the book, controversial issues are addressed and capture the conflict between the need to maximize community safety and the need to control the cost of operating prisons. Additional attention is paid to both the juvenile and adult populations and the book considers how the probation officers work with each."

Author : Rob Canton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136673627

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Probation by Rob Canton Pdf

This title presents an account of contemporary probation policy and practice. It also offers an account of probation's history, its values and its principal tasks. It is suitable for the students of probation, and for general readers.

Author : Koichi Hamai,Robert Harris,Mike Hough,Renaud Ville,Ugljesa Zvekic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134821426

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Probation Round the World by Koichi Hamai,Robert Harris,Mike Hough,Renaud Ville,Ugljesa Zvekic Pdf

Theoretically innovative, this book reviews disparate existing literature on comparative probation and offers a coherent analysis of probation around the world. Represents findings of the UN Crime and Justice Research Unit.

Author : George Mair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134035700

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What Matters in Probation by George Mair Pdf

The What Works initiative is having a profound impact on the work of the National Probation Service, and much has been invested in new accredited programmes - both in terms of the numbers of offenders planned to complete these programmes and their anticipated impact upon offending. Yet there has been little scholarly or professional discussion of the nature and risks of the new paradigm: it is important that it is subjected to critical debate and scrutiny. This book aims to provide a critical overview of What Works, providing a wider set of perspectives on a project which is vital for the future of the National Probation Service.

Author : Nicola Carr,Gwen Robinson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031121081

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Time and Punishment by Nicola Carr,Gwen Robinson Pdf

This book provides a novel exploration of time and temporality in relation to punishment and criminal sanctioning. It goes beyond focussing on the prison to address punishment more broadly with contributions on punishment in the community (including after periods of imprisonment) and in areas of the criminal justice system which have typically received less attention such as prison transportation between prisons. The collection also includes a focus on temporality in criminal justice policy, and its potential impacts on speeding up justice, as well as the experiential nature of punishment. The book includes contributions from scholars in UK and Europe, with largely original research, and draws on the international literature. It hopes to encourage punishment scholars to consider how ideas from the sociology of time can inform their own research.

Author : Lacey Schaefer,Francis T. Cullen,John E. Eck
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781506323299

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Environmental Corrections by Lacey Schaefer,Francis T. Cullen,John E. Eck Pdf

A new paradigm for supervising offenders in the community Environmental Corrections is an innovative guide filled with rich insights and strategies for probation and parole officers to effectively integrate offenders back into the community and reduce recidivism. Authors Lacey Schaefer, Francis T. Cullen, and John E. Eck move beyond traditional models for interventions and build directly on the applied focus of environmental criminology theories. Using this approach, the authors answer the question of what officers can do to decrease opportunities for an offender to commit a crime. Readers will learn how to recognize and assess specific criminal opportunities in an offender’s past and gain the tools and strategies they need to design an individualized supervision plan that channels offenders away from these criminogenic situations.

Author : Philip Whitehead
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447327660

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Transforming Probation by Philip Whitehead Pdf

Written by an established author in the field, this book explores the politics of modernisation and transformation of probation in the criminal justice system. It is unique in drawing upon innovative social theories and moral perspectives to analyse changes in the probation service by including data from quantitative and qualitative empirical research. This highlights the challenges to, but also support of, the platform of modernisation that culminated in the transformative Rehabilitation Revolution. Providing critical tools for the reader to use in their own work and studies, it makes a timely contribution to criminal justice and probation theory and uniquely provides insights into what representatives of other organisations think about probation – from the outside looking in.

Author : Shlomo Giora Shoham,Ori Beck,Martin Kett
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 1420053884

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International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice by Shlomo Giora Shoham,Ori Beck,Martin Kett Pdf

At the outset of the twenty-first century, more than 9 million people are held in custody in over 200 countries around the world. --from the essay "Prisons and Jails" by Ron King The first comparative study of this increasingly integral social subject, International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice provides a comprehensive and balanced review of the philosophy and practicality of punishment. Drawn from the expertise of scholars and researchers from around the world, this book covers the theory, practice, history, and empirical evidence surrounding crime prevention, identification, retribution, and incarceration. It analyzes the efficacy of both traditional methods and thinking as well as novel concepts and approaches. Beginning with a study of the changing attitude of penal practice in Florida from one of offender transformation to one of risk-management, imprisonment, surveillance, and control, this volume embarks on an objective and sober appraisal of every aspect of the field. Contributions consider the sociology of incarcerated prisoners including the increasing prevalence of prison suicides. The book evaluates arguments regarding the world-wide abolition of capitol punishment from moral, utilitarian, and practical positions. It examines non-incarcerative and alternative punishments such as financial restoration and restrictions of liberty, as well as the positive effects of Victim Offender Mediation. It also considers several methods aimed at achieving measurable crime prevention including identifying at-risk juveniles and minimizing crimes of opportunity, as well as the pros and cons of employing the coercive power of police. Further essays consider subjects such as international policing, the roles of prosecution and defense attorneys, current discretionary sentencing practices, and the role and treatment of victims. The volume concludes with two chapters of case studies that provide a "hands-on" feel for the interplay of the concepts discussed. This volume is the first in a three-part trilogy. See also The International Handbook of Victimology and The International Handbook of Criminology.