Working with Offenders
Issues, Contexts and Outcomes
Series: New Directions in Social Work series; 1;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher SAGE Publications Ltd
- Date of Publication 8 January 1996
- ISBN 9780803976214
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 216x137 mm
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Working with Offenders examines the current knowledge, skills and values which are needed by those working as probation officers and social workers for effective and competent practice. As well as looking at areas of practice which are of central importance to the altering roles of practitioners, this original textbook provides a critical appraisal of the policies and requirements which guide those roles.
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Long description:
Working with Offenders examines the current knowledge, skills and values which are needed by those working as probation officers and social workers for effective and competent practice. As well as looking at areas of practice which are of central importance to the altering roles of practitioners, this original textbook provides a critical appraisal of the policies and requirements which guide those roles.
Written in an accessible style by experienced academics and professionals, the book examines: the issues which inform practice - training, skills and competences, antidiscriminatory practice, autonomy and accountability, masculinity and the causes of crime; the contexts in which work with offenders take place - probation committees, boards, pre-sentence reports, community penalties, prison, and the community; and the outcomes of good practice - including partnerships against crime, efficiency, effectiveness and an evaluation of crime prevention and broader methods of intervention.
`As a practitioner I found it helpful and illuminating to find all the key debates and issues, together with some summaries available research and evidence, in one volume' - Youth and Policy
`A recurrent theme is the increasing centralisation of probation policy, increasing managerialism and the implications thereof for professional autonomy and accountability.... In conveying clearly the context of contemporary probation practice, this book will be of particular value to students on courses which themselves, ironically, have fallen victim to centralised initiatives that deny the relevance of social work values and skills to work with offenders' - Community Care
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Introduction - Tim May and Antony A Vass
The Shifting Sands of Working with Offenders
PART ONE: ISSUES
Probation Training - Mike Nellis
The Links with Social Work
The Essential Skills of Probation Work - Gwyneth Boswell
Discrimination and Anti-Discrimination in Probation - David Denney
Values in Context - Ellis Finkelstein
Quality Assurance, Autonomy and Accountability
Masculinity, the Probation Service and the Causes of Offending Behaviour - Karen Buckley
PART TWO: CONTEXTS
The Role of Probation Committees in Policing the Development of the Probation Service - Simon Holdaway
Pre-Sentence Reports - David Smith
Community Penalties - Antony A Vass
The Politics of Punishment
The Transition from Prison to Community - Brian Williams
PART THREE: OUTCOMES
New Partnerships in Work with Offenders and Crime Prevention Work - Bob Broad
Crime Prevention - Daniel Gilling
Evaluating Probation - Peter Raynor
The Rehabilitation of Effectiveness
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