Understanding penal practice. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ioan Durnescu and Fergus McNeill.
• Other Names: Durnescu, Ioan; McNeill, Fergus
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 344 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 364.6; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; Punishment; Corrections; Justice, Administration of; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology; Corrections; Justice, Administration of; Punishment; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136201158; 1136201157; 9780203087220; 0203087224; 1306111811; 9781306111812
• Related ISBNs: 9780415635813; 0415635810
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.