Community Justice

by Winstone; Jane

• ISBN13: 9781843921288
• ISBN10: 1843921286
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2005-09-01
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

This book provides an accessible text and critical analysis of the concepts and delivery of community justice, a focal point in contemporary criminal justice. The probation service in particular has undergone radical changes in relation to professional training, roles and delivery of services, but now operates within a mosaic of a number of inter-agency initiatives. This book aims to provide a critical appreciation of community justice, its origin and direction, and to engage with debates on the ways in which the trend towards community justice is changing the criminal justice system. At the same time it examines the inter-agency character of intervention and the developing idea of end-to-end offender management, and familiarises the reader with a number of more specialist area, such as hate crime, mental illness, substance abuse, and victims.

Table of Contents

Figures and tables	v
Notes on contributors	vii
1 Community justice: the smell of fresh bread	1	(15)
Francis Pakes and Jane Winstone
2 The probation service, public protection and dangerous offenders	16	(17)
Mike Nash
3 Dim prospects: humanistic values and the fate of community justice	33	(19)
Mike Nellis
4 The police service: from enforcement to management	52	(20)
Robin Fletcher
5 Police and community justice in partnership	72	(19)
Barry Loveday
6 'Tough on probation': probation practice under the National Offender Management Service	91	(15)
Dennis Gough
7 Working for community justice: a Home Office perspective	106	(24)
Chris Lewis
8 A new chance for rehabilitation: multi-agency provision and potential under NOMS	130	(12)
Aaron Pycroft
9 Crime prevention: the role and potential of schools	142	(23)
Carol Hayden
10 The identification and management of anti-social and offending behaviour	165	(18)
Ruth M. Hatcher and Clive R. Hollin
11 Community youth justice: policy, practices and public perception	183	(15)
Nikki McKenzie
12 Community responses to hate crime	198	(21)
Nathan Hall
13 Marginalized and disenfranchised: community justice and mentally disordered offenders	219	(18)
Jane Winstone and Francis Pakes
14 Improving confidence in criminal justice: achieving community justice for victims and witnesses	237	(20)
Jacki Tapley
15 Is research working? Revisiting the research and effective practice agenda	257	(26)
James McGuire
16 Community justice in a safety culture: probation service and community justice in the Netherlands	283	(18)
Miranda Boone
Index	301

Excerpts

"This book provides an accessible text on the concepts and delivery of community justice, a focal point in contemporary criminal justice. The concept of community justice is concerned with working with offenders, crime prevention and community safety, as well as working with victims and vulnerable groups, and aims to explore whether current arrangement can or will deliver community justice for some or all sections of what we understand to be the 'community'."--BOOK JACKET.