Probation Practice And The New Penology

Author : John Deering
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317075552
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Probation Practice and the New Penology written by John Deering and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315407000
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Probation written by Rob Canton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Howard Abadinsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Probation and Parole written by Howard Abadinsky and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is appealing to both teachers and students because of Dr. Abadinsky's extensive probation and parole background. The eighth edition has been streamlined and expanded into fourteen chapters, with some chapters reorganized. New to this edition: Material on supervising substance-abusing offenders Additional material on supervising sex offenders Additional material on supervising persons with HIV/AIDS To remain cutting edge in the field, this edition continues to use materials from juvenile and adult probation and parole agencies throughout the country, providing state-of-the-art practices in probation and parole.

Author : Ioan Durnescu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136201157
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Penal Practice written by Ioan Durnescu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Maurice Vanstone
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351896938
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supervising Offenders in the Community written by Maurice Vanstone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137519827
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Probation written by Fergus McNeill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-24 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume poses a series of key questions about the practice of probation as an integral part of the European criminal justice system. The contributors are established experts in their respective fields of study and together their questions address the legitimacy, and perhaps continued existence, of probation. The book offers analyses of why people offend and stop offending, and the wide ranging impacts of probation. This includes the impact on offenders' social reintegration, as a form of reparation for victims and communities, on public desire for justice and punishment, and on probationers themselves. The contributors further assess the state of probation and its adaptation to the current state of penality and society, the role of probation officers in pre-sentencing decision-making and the promotion of community sanctions and measures. By providing important recommendations and suggestions for application to practice, the book will be of great interest to academics, students, policy makers and practitioners alike.

Author : Philip Whitehead
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447327667
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Probation written by Philip Whitehead and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Howard Abadinsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780137159796
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Probation & Parole written by Howard Abadinsky and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Raynor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349233005
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Effective Probation Practice written by Peter Raynor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1994-03-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the authors' experience of research and practice in probation, the book provides a positive and realistic view of the contribution the probation service can make to the criminal justice system. It covers court work, face-to-face work with offenders, wider work in the community, and probation organisation and management. It is informed both by research on 'what works' and by a commitment to anti-discriminatory practice.

Author : John Harding
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780422795807
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Probation and the Community written by John Harding and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1987 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: