Working with offenders
Subtitle: issues, contexts, and outcomes
By: edited by Tim May and Antony A. Vass.
Contributors: May, Tim, 1957-; Vass, Antony A.
Series: New directions in social work
Publisher: Sage; SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- Great Britain.; Alternatives to imprisonment -- Great Britain.; Social work with criminals -- Great Britain.; Probation -- Great Britain.; Social policy.; Criminology -- Great Britain.; Crime -- Great Britain -- Sociological aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The shifting sands of working with offenders -- Tim May and Antony A. Vass; title: Probation training : the links with social work -- Mike Nellis; title: The essential skills of probation work -- Gwyneth Boswell; title: Discrimination and anti-discrimination in probation -- David Denney; title: Values in context : quality assurance, autonomy, and accountability -- Ellis Finkelstein; title: Masculinity, the probation service and the causes of offending behaviour -- Karen Buckley; title: The role of probation committees in policing the development of the probation service -- Simon Holdaway; title: Pre-sentence reports -- David Smith; title: Community penalties : the politics of punishment -- Antony A. Vass; title: The transition from prison to community -- Brian Williams; title: New partnerships in work with offenders and crime prevention work -- Bob Broad; title: Crime prevention -- Daniel Gilling; title: Evaluating probation : the rehabilitation of effectiveness -- Peter Raynor.