Residential Work with Offenders: Reflexive Accounts of Practice

by Emma Wincup

Overview

This title was first published in 2002: Throughout the book reflexive accounts of practice gathered from qualitative research in four different types of bail and probation hostels (women-only, women-only with provision for children, mixed and men-only) are used to argue that the combination of working with a difficult client group in a difficult setting creates a unique blend of professional and personal anxieties. These reflexive accounts are located within their broader social and criminal justice context, and analyzed in relation to contemporary criminological and sociological debates. The result is a detailed insight into the everyday world of bail and probation hostels covering issues such as managing risk and violence, coping with stress and evaluating practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351747646
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/16/2019
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	808 KB

About the Author

Emma Wincup, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK

Table of Contents

Introduction; A century of residential work with offenders; Rhetoric and reality: working within the framework of ’national standards’; Falling in at the deep end: becoming a hostel worker; Vulnerable workers: managing risk and danger; Unrelenting stress? surviving residential work; Residential work with female offenders; Evaluating residential work with offenders; Concluding comments; Appendices; References.

Editorial Reviews

Wincup (U. of Kent at Canterbury, UK) explores the everyday experiences of residential social workers working with men and women at four probation and bail hostels in England and Wales. The hostels (sometimes described as halfway houses) frequently mix convicted offenders on probation with unconvicted people who are on bail or awaiting trial. Wincup discusses the workers' development of knowledge and expertise, their strategies for managing risk and vulnerability, the kinds of stress they encounter and how they cope with it, their approaches for translating theory into practice for working with offenders, how they measure the effectiveness of their work, and policy implications. The study has no subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

’The strength of Wincup’s exploratory research lies in its qualitative focus producing a wealth of practitioner accounts. While small-scale, she has nevertheless drawn together a clear and familiar picture of the dilemmas faced by hostel staff...The end result is a book that captures the unique richness and dynamic nature of hostel work.’ Probation Journal

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