Suitable for practitioners, researchers and academics concerned with addressing offending behaviour, this book combines wider theoretical and contextual debates with practice-orientated concerns, key skills and interventions. It discusses the types of work that are typically undertaken with offenders.

This is a comprehensive text for practitioners, researchers and academics concerned with addressing offending behaviour. The book combines wider theoretical and contextual debates with more practice-orientated concerns, key skills and interventions; provides an up-to-date discussion of the types of work that are typically undertaken with offenders; and, analyses treatment of minority and vulnerable offender populations.

Part One: Context: Policy, law and culture
1 The legal framework, Martin Wasik
2 The policy framework, Mike Nash (Institute of Criminal Justice)
3 The evidence base, Anthony Goodman (Middlesex University)
4 Constructing the offender, Yvonne Jewkes (The Open University)
Part Two: Practice: Core Skills
5 Engagement skills, Chris Tallant (Humberside Probation Service), Mark Sambrook and Simon Green
6 Written communication, Pauline Ashworth (University of Bradford)
7 Evaluating practice, Louise Sturgeon Adams (University of Hull)
8 Models of intervention, Iolo Madoc-Jones (North East Wales Institute)
9 Desistance-focused approaches Fergus McNeill (University of Glasgow) and Trish McCulloch (University of Dundee)
10 Assessing and managing risk, Dave Philips (Sheffield Hallam University)
11 Enforcement and compliance, Anthony Goodman, Amanda Loumansky and Simon Feasey
12 Multi-agency working, Anna Souhami
Part Three: Specialist skills
13 Working with dangerous offenders, Mike Nash (University of Portsmouth)
14 Working with substance misuse, Julian Buchanan (University of Wales)
15 Delivering accredited programmes, Simon Feasey (Sheffield Hallam University)
16 Resettlement work, Paul Senior (Sheffield Hallam University)
17 Victims, Brian Williams (formerly De Montfort University) and Hannah Goodman (De Montfort University)
18 Working with mentally disordered offenders, Rob Canton (De Montfort University)
19 Working with perpetrators and victims of domestic violence, Mark Rivett (University of Bristol) and Alyson Rees (Cardiff University)
Part Four: Values and antioppressive practice
20 Values and ethics within offender management, Elizabeth Lancaster (Bradford University)
21 Working with female offenders, Clare Beckett (University of Bradford)
22 Working with ethnic diversity, Bankole Cole (University of Hull)
23 Class issues within criminal justice work Simon Green (University of Hull)
Glossary
Index.