Title: Applying complexity theory : whole systems approaches to criminal justice and social work /
Authors: Pycroft, Aaron.; Bartollas, Clemens.
Publisher: Policy Press,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Social sciences Research; Complexity (Philosophy); Criminal justice, Administration of
Contents: Introduction / Aaron Pycroft and Clemens Bartollas -- Complexity theory: an overview / Aaron Pycroft -- Risk, attractors and organisational behaviour / Paul Jennings -- Why do people commit crime? An integrated systems perspective / Matthew Robinson -- Complexity and the emergence of social work and criminal justice programmes / Michael Wolf-Branigin -- Child protection practice and complexity / Peter Hassett and Irene Stevens -- Youth justice: from linear risk paradigm to complexity / Stephen Case and Kevin Haines -- The Stephen Lawrence inquiry: a case study in policing and complexity / John G.D. Grieve -- Intersecting contexts of oppression within complex public systems / Charmaine McPherson and Elizabeth McGibbon -- Complexity theory, trans-disciplinary working and reflective practice / Fiona McDermott -- Probation practice and creativity in England and Wales: a complex system analysis / Aaron Pycroft -- Responding to domestic abuse: multi-agented systems, probation programmes and emergent outcomes / Sarah Lewis -- Complexity, law, and ethics: on drug addiction, natural recovery and the diagnostics of psychological jurisprudence / Bruce Arrigo and Christopher Williams -- Constituting the system: radical developments in post-Newtonian society / Clemens Bartollas -- Conclusion / Clemens Bartollas and Aaron Pycroft.