Crime and Social Policy

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Crime and Social Policy provides an invaluable examination of the relationship between social policy and crime. It draws on recent empirical research to offer important insights into the impact of current social policy trends on the lives of offenders. Provides an invaluable examination of the critical relationship between social policy and crime managementIncludes illuminating case studies on the impact of social policies on offendersReviews current social policy trends and their influence on crime causation, crime rates, and crime managementDiscusses the role for social policy in promoting more effective reintegration of offenders into the communityDraws on recent empirical research ranging from youth crime, anti-social behaviour, ‘problematic families’, and social security fraudThe collection offers important insights into the impact of current social policy trends on the lives of offenders

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-12-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 8 mm
Vikt:243 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
Antal sidor:144
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781118509890

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Brottslighet och kriminologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Hazel Kemshall is Professor of Community and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University. She has completed research for the Economic and Social Research Council, the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, the Scottish Government, and the Risk Management Authority. She has over 50 publications on risk, including Understanding Risk in Criminal Justice (2003), and Understanding the Community Management of High Risk Offenders (2008). She is the author of the Home Office risk training materials for social workers and the Scottish Executive materials for social workers.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Contributors viiIntroduction 1Hazel Kemshall1 An International Crime Decline: Lessons for Social Welfare Crime Policy? 5Paul Knepper2 Advise, Assist and Befriend: Can Probation Supervision Support Desistance? 23Deirdre Healy3 The Relational Context of Desistance: Some Implications and Opportunities for Social Policy 41Beth Weaver4 ‘Regulating the Poor’: Observations on the ‘Structural Coupling’ of Welfare, Criminal Justice and the Voluntary Sector in a ‘Big Society’ 59John J. Rodger5 What Prospects Youth Justice? Children in Trouble in the Age of Austerity 77Joe Yates6 Bleak Times for Children? The Anti-social Behaviour Agenda and the Criminalization of Social Policy 93Janet Jamieson7 Social Citizenship and Social Security Fraud in the UK and Australia 111Gráinne McKeeverIndex 129