Rethinking What Works with Offenders

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• ISBN13: 9781843921028
• ISBN10: 1843921022
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

This book reports on a major investigation into the outcomes of probation supervision, and is concerned to address the key question of what works in probation. Drawing upon an extensive range of research and data, it examines the processes that occur during probation supervision which are either conducive to desistance from offending, or which contribute to further offending.In doing so, Rethinking What Works with Offendersseeks to understand probation work from the perspective of those who deliver it, and those to whom it is delivered;analyses how probation works, reconceptualising probation outcomes in terms of degrees of success rather than as 'successful' or 'unsuccessful'; andassesses the policy implications of these findings and conclusions.Rethinking What Works with Offenders presents a challenging range of findings, and will be essential reading for anybody professionally concerned with the present and future of probation and community sentencing.

Author Biography

Stephen Farrall is a Research Fellow in the Department of Criminology, Keele University.

Table of Contents

List of tables and figures	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Probation, social context and desistance from crime: introducing the agenda	p. 3
Realism, criminal careers and complexity	p. 31
The study	p. 45
Probation, motivation and social contexts	p. 61
Defining 'success'	p. 63
The focus of probation	p. 71
Resolving obstacles: the role of probation supervision	p. 85
Motivation and probation	p. 99
Probation work: content and context	p. 116
Motivation, changing contexts and probation supervision	p. 145
Persistence and desistance	p. 171
Desistance, change and probation supervision	p. 173
The factors associated with offending	p. 193
Conclusions	p. 205
Probation, social context and desistance from crime: developing the agenda	p. 207
Appendix	p. 230
References	p. 233
Index	p. 245
Case index	p. 247
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