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.

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1 Community Justice: the smell of fresh bread Francis Pakes and Jane Winstone
2 The probation service, public protection and dangerous offenders Mike Nash
3 Dim prospects: humanistic values and the fate of community justice Mike Nellis
4 The police service: from enforcement to management Robin Fletcher
5 Police and community justice in partnership Barry Loveday
6 'Tough on probation': probation practice under the National Offender Management Service Dennis Gough
7 Working for community justice: a Home Office perspective Chris Lewis
8 A new chance for rehabilitation: multi-agency provision and potential under NOMS Aaron Pycroft
9 Crime prevention: the role and potential of schools Carol Hayden
10 The identification and management of anti-social and offending behaviour Ruth M. Hatcher and Clive R. Hollin
11 Community youth justice: policy, practice and public perception Nikki McKenzie
12 Community responses to hate crime Nathan Hall
13 Marginalized and disenfranchises: community justice and mentally disordered offenders Jane Winstone and Francis Pakes
14 Improving confidence in criminal justice: achieving community justice for victims and witnesses Jacki Tapley
15 Is research working? Revisiting the research and effective practice agenda James McGuire
16 Community justice in a safety culture: probation service and community justice in the Netherlands Miranda Boone
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