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Understanding Offending Behaviour (Paperback, New Ed)
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Understanding Offending Behaviour (Paperback, New Ed)
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Based on a survey of probation work with almost 1400 young adult
offenders, this book provides a unique insight into the realities
of probation practice in a context of increasing poverty, drug use
and community breakdown. Starting with an outline of the current
policy environment, the book discusses the relevance of
criminological theory to the harsh experience of young offenders in
modern Britain. It goes on to develop a typology of offending
behaviour on the basis of detailed and often disturbing accounts of
the histories and troubles of young people afflicted by poverty,
disruption of family relationships and long term unemployment.
While much of the book is concerned with the difficulties young
offenders experience, and the problems probation officers have in
trying to help them change, the overall message of the book is not
one of despair. The authors show that good probation practice can
make a difference, and the book is written in a way which will be
useful to practitioners and policy-makers involved with supervising
offenders in the community. From the typology of offending the
authors extract lessons for appropriate and relevant practice which
should help to improve the quality and effectiveness of the
probation service. Some of these implications are explored in the
concluding chapter, by Cedric Fullwood, Chief Probation Officer of
Greater Manchester. As well as criminal justice practitioners,
students of criminology, probation trainees and other social work
students will find in the book many vivid examples of how
sociological theory can be used to understand and interpret
practice. The book is likely to provoke much debate about what
constitutes positive practice in a probation service facing the
challenges of the future.
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