Understanding penal practice / edited by Ioan Durnescu and Fergus McNeill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Durnescu, Ioan.

McNeill, Fergus

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Series:

Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; 15.

Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Punishment.

Corrections.

Justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 344 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Criminological and penological scholarship has in recent years explored how and why institutions and systems of punishment change - and how and why these changes differ in different contexts. Important though these analyses are, this book focuses not so much on the changing nature of institutions and systems, but rather the changing nature of penal practice and practitioners. Bringing together leading researchers from around the world, this collection unites studies that aim to describe and critically analyse penal practice with studies that investigate its effectiveness and prescribe its future development Reversing penology's usual preoccupation with the prison, the book focuses mainly on penal practice in the community (i.e. on probation, parole, offender supervision and 'community corrections'). The first part of the book focuses on understanding practice and practitioners, exploring how changing social, cultural, political and organisational contexts influence practice, and how training, development, professional socialisation and other factors influence practitioners. The second part is concerned with how practitioners may be best supported to develop the skills and approaches that seem most likely to generate positive impacts. It contains accounts of new practice models and approaches, as well as reports of research projects seeking both to discover and to encourage effective practices. This book explores internationally significant and cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work on the cultures, practices, roles and impacts of frontline practitioners in delivering penal sanctions. As such, it will be of interest to researchers in criminology, social work and social policy as well as correctional policy makers and those involved in community supervision. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: understanding penal practice / Fergus McNeill and Ioan Durnescu

Understanding practice, understanding practitioners

Professional ideologies in united states probation and parole / Danielle S. Rudes, Jill Viglione, Faye S. Taxman

Correctional officer training in Canada / Denis C. Bracken

Who works in the probation service in Romania? / Ioan Durnescu, Vlad Grigoras, Florin Lazar and Smaranda Witec

Explaining french probation : social work in a prison administration / Martine Herzog Evans

Probation practices and übergangsmanagement in Germany : state of play and challenges / Pascal Décarpes

Volunteers in the probation service : a comparison between Germany and Japan / Helmut Kury & Mai Sato

Redefining professionalism by seeking legitimacy in probation? : a comparison between Belgium and England and Wales / Aline Bauwens and Lol Burke

Understanding "the relationship" in English probation supervision / Jake Phillips

What quality means to probation staff in England in relation to one-to-one supervision / Joanna Shapland, Angela Sorsby, Gwen Robinson, Camilla Priede, Stephen Farrall and Fergus McNeill

Staff-prisoner relationships, moral performance, and privatization / Alison Liebling and Ben Crewe

Changing lives, changing work : social work and criminal justice / Fergus McNeill

Supporting practitioners, improving practice

Staff skills and characteristics in probation history : a literature review / Ioan Durnescu

Co-producing desistance : who works to support desistance? / Beth Weaver

Practicing the good lives model (GLM) / Chi Meng Chu, Tony Ward, Gwenda M. Willis

Effective supervision in youth justice : a comparison of data sources / Chris Trotter

Supporting probation officers' evidence-based professional development in the strategic training initiative in community supervision (STICS) : ongoing clinical support activities and the individuals who lead the charge / Guy Bourgon, Leticia Gutierrez and Tanya Rugge

Supervision skills and practices : the Jersey study / Pamela Ugwudike, Peter Raynor and Maurice Vanstone

Supporting practitioners to engage offenders / Sue Rex and Nigel Hosking

Sources of professional effectiveness / Anneke Menger, Andrea Donker

Wraparound care as a booster of the crime reducing effects of probation / Jo Hermanns, Anneke Menger, René Butter, Laurens de Croes, Donnalee Heij, and Lonieke Casteleijn

Aligning the purposes of probation with professional and learning competencies : basic conditions for a new professionalism / Bas Vogelvang

Conclusions: changing penal practice / Ioan Durnescu and Fergus McNeill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780203087220

0203087224

Publisher Number:

99977537474

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.