Worldwide, social workers have many functions and roles to play in the areas of crime and criminal justice, and they work with service users at both sides of criminal justice: crime perpetrators, crime victims and, very often, vulnerable people who...Loe edasi...
Through qualitative interviews with formerly incarcerated veterans, this book focuses on the lived experiences, and behaviors associated with the incarceration of veterans....Loe edasi...
This book explores the making, unmaking, and remaking of the Probation Service in England and Wales. It draws on original, empirical data derived from 38 semi-structured interviews with staff from across the probation estate to scrutinise ongoing ch...Loe edasi...
European penology, the multidisciplinary scientific study of punishment carried out on the European continent, is booming. This Handbook aims to offer an overview of the current state of the art and of cutting-edge penological research in Europe, co...Loe edasi...
This book offers a new and innovative way of thinking about desistance from crime, fusing our understanding of desistance transitions, youth transitions, and the impact of significant policy change on people with convictions in a way which is yet to...Loe edasi...
Providing a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary Scottish criminal justice system, this book focuses on its key processes (from arrest to post-sentence) and institutions, as well as its history and some of the key challenges...Loe edasi...
This book comprises an in-depth ethnographic study of daily life in two local Danish probation offices. It explores the interactions between probation officers and citizens on probation, assessing the potential for manual-based or scripted rehabilit...Loe edasi...
This book offers a one-stop guide to becoming employable and to careers in the Criminal Justice Sector and beyond, exploring the key organizations and employers in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, explaining how they operate and detail...Loe edasi...
This book explores how normalcy looks from desisters point of view, thereby shedding light on the gendered, classed, and age-graded harms of the normal life desisters (are told to) aspire to as well as the forms of resistance involved in approaching...Loe edasi...
This book voices the narratives of 15 women (10 of whom identify as Mori) with histories of imprisonment in Aotearoa New Zealand, and makes an original contribution to desistance literature by bringing greater conceptual clarity to gendered aspects...Loe edasi...
Building on a range of interviews with young adult women who were offenders in their youth, this book analyses their vivid personal accounts of stigma, motherhood, addiction and examines the gendered transition from youth criminality into adulthood....Loe edasi...
The U.S. Constitutions Eighth Amendment: Bail, Fines, and Punishments is an in-depth exploration of the Eighth Amendments pivotal role in American jurisprudence....Loe edasi...
The Unmaking of Crime documents the pathways of offenders reforming their journey and desisting from crime, and assesses the opportunities and limitations of the criminal justice system in aiding this process....Loe edasi...
Providing an in-depth interrogation of the practitioner/academic role within the context of criminal justice, this book outlines the benefits and challenges of different roles through exploring the lived experience of the contributing authors....Loe edasi...
This timely, insightful, and data-led book fills a gap in gang scholarship by examining gangs in rural areas, specifically focussing on youth gang activity....Loe edasi...
Exploring the application, theory, implications and socio-legal underpinnings of human rights in probation and associated offender management, this book examines the organisation and re-organization of the National Probation Service, from the introd...Loe edasi...
First published in 1949, this book was primarily written for all who had to do with delinquent children. What is probation? What happens to the person put on probation? What good is it supposed to do to him or to society? These are the questions whi...Loe edasi...
The Routledge Handbook on Global Community Corrections assesses and analyses the status of community corrections systems around the world, highlighting inter-regional and intra-regional variations in their design, implementation, and impact on polic...Loe edasi...
This book presents a comparative study of desistance from crime by analysing and comparing the narratives of English and French desisters. In doing so, it uncovers how national and structural differences may lead to varying individual pathways out o...Loe edasi...
