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Probation : Working With Offenders
Paperback Edition: 1/2011
This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the work of the probation service. It brings together themes of policy, theory and practice to help students and practitioners to better understand the work of probation, its limitations as well as 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, discusses emerging ideas around offender management, and the value of an approach that centres on the idea of desistance. It considers the practice 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 -- for example through the management of risk. Although the main focus is on England and Wales, there is some discussion of other UK jurisdictions and of contemporary trends in European probation practices. This book will encourage readers to appreciate the practical and theoretical strengths and shortcomings of contemporary probation practice. Information and discussion are presented clearly, with guidance about further study and pointers towards more specialised readings. Probation: Working with Offenders will be essential reading for trainee probation officers and students of probation and offender management.
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Pages : 280
Publisher : Willan Publishing
Publication date : 2011-08
Subjects: Non-fiction, Social Sciences, Social Services & Welfare, Criminology, Probation Services