What Else Works?
Subtitle: Creative Work with Offenders
Contributors: Cowe, Francis; Deering, John
Publisher: Willan Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Uffculme
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781843927686
Subjects: Probation; Criminals; Social work with criminals; Community-based corrections; Rehabilitation
Description: This book has developed out of a growing awareness amongst practitioners that centralized notions of what works and 'one size fits all' approaches to work with offenders and other groups is inevitably limited in its scope and effectiveness. This realisation reopens the door on 'what works, with whom and in what circumstances', i.e. the idea that successful intervention can come from a number of different approaches, linked to individual difference. The book as a whole argues that it may be unhelpful to continually think of probation service users as 'offenders' and socially excluded people as.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Prelims; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Part One; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Creative work: an historical perspective; Chapter 3. Travelling hopefully: desistance theory and probation practice; Chapter 4. Bringing sense and sensitivity to corrections: from programmes to 'fix' offenders to services to support desistance; Part Two; Chapter 5. Women offenders: more trouble than troublesome?; Chapter 6. Residential work with adult offenders: greenhouses or warehouses?; Chapter 7. Creative working with minority ethnic offenders.; title: Chapter 8. Asset-based welfare and youth justice: making it localChapter 9. Dancing through gaps: a Welsh approach to personal support in custody for young people; Chapter 10. Contemporary sex offender treatment: incorporating circles of support and the good lives model; Chapter 11. Getting out: offenders in forestry and conservation work settings; Chapter 12. Putting the OM into NOMS: problems and possibilities for offender managem.