WORKING WITH OFFENDERS

by Gill McIvor (Editor)

Overview

Significant changes have occurred in recent years in the nature and delivery of social work services to offenders and their families. Working with Offenders considers the implications for policy and practice of research which has focused upon a range of social work activities including

* assessment

* intensive probation programmes

* community service

* reparation and mediation

* social work with prisoners

* work with sex offenders.

It also considers more general issues of effectiveness, race and gender and locates recent developments in practice in the context of the broader policy changes in social work and criminal justice which have evolved over the last few years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781853022494
Publisher:	Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date:	01/01/1995
Series:	Research Highlights in Social Work Series , #26
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 8.23(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Gill McIvor is a Senior Research Fellow in the Social Work Research Centre, Department of Applied Social Science, University of Stirling.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Gill McIvor. 1. Social Work and Penal Policy David Smith, Lancaster. 2. Developments in Probation in England and Wales 1984-1993 George Mair. 3. Recent Developments in Scotland Gill McIvor. 4. Probation in Northern Ireland Breidge Gadd. 5. Gender, Criminal Justice and Probation Anne Worrall. 6. Race, Culture and the Probation service Duncan Lawrence. 7. Risk Prediction and Criminal Justice Bryan Williams, University of Dundee and Anne Creamer, University of Dundee. 8. What Works with Sex Offenders? Mary Barker. 9. Intensive Probation George Mair. 10. Evaluating Work with Offenders: Community Service Orders Jean Hine and Neil Thomas, University of Birmingham. 11. Widening Circles: Mediation in Criminal Justice Tony F. Marshall. 12. Social Work with Prisoners Brian Williams, University of Keele. 13. Effectiveness Now: A Personal and Selective Overview Peter Raynor.

Editorial Reviews

I thoroughly enjoyed this book...Generous use of headings and sub-headings makes the pieces even more reader friendly and each is well finished with a conclusion...Each piece is thoroughly well informed and makes its own interesting contribution. The authors too possess impressive credentials and experience in probation practice, academic work and research.

Irish Social Worker

This valuable collection... is much more than a textbook, providing as it does a series of informed and thought-provoking perspectives on developments in a particularly turbulent decade for criminal justic policy and practice in this country. It will be welcomed by all with a professional interest in probation and social work with adult offenders.

Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

Those interested in the future of the probation service, or any of the issues in specialist chapters, would find much of value.

British Journal of Criminology

The authors include some of the best-known researchers in criminological social work in the UK... For anyone wishing to gain an overview of the policy context of community sanctions for offenders in the UK over recent years, the chapters by Smith, McIvor and Mair in this volume are an invaluable source. Other chapters in the book... also provide extremely useful, empirically based and well-balanced accounts of these areas.

Legal and Criminological Psychology

At a time when change is about the only thing that those working in the criminal justice system can be sure of, this volume of essays by academics and practitioners provides a welcome series of perspectives on probation practice and its relationship to the penal policy changes in the last decade... This book is wide-ranging and scholarly and will appeal to both probation students and staff alike. Recommended.

Criminal Justice