Working with Offenders: Issues, Contexts and Outcomes

by Tim May (Editor), Anthony Andreas Vass (Editor)

Overview

Working with Offenders examines the current knowledge, skills and values which are needed by those working as probation officers and social workers for effective and competent practice. As well as looking at areas of practice which are of central importance to the altering roles of practitioners, this original textbook provides a critical appraisal of the policies and requirements which guide those roles.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803976221
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	03/08/1996
Series:	New Directions in Social Work series , #1
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Tim May originally trained and worked as an agricultural engineer. After his Ph D (1990), he was appointed to a lectureship at Plymouth (1989-95) and then moved to the University of Durham (1995-99) and was appointed at Salford in 1999. He became Director of the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures in 2001. He is currently Professor of Social Science Methodology and Director of Research at the Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield. He has held research grants from many sources including: ESRC; EPSRC; AHRC; Mistra (Swedish Environmental Research Foundation; Regional Development Agencies; Core Cities Group; Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; Higher Education Funding Council; Local Government Management Board; Economic and Social Research Council; Manchester City Council; the CONTACT group of the four Greater Manchester Universities and the NHS.

 

In addition to the books and journals listed below, Tim May has contributed chapters to the following publications:

 

May, T. and Perry, B. 2013 ‘Reflexivity and Data Analysis’. In Flick, U. (ed). Handbook of Qualitative Data Analysis. London: SAGE.

 

May, T. 2013 ‘Reflexivity’. In Kaldis, B. (ed). Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. London: SAGE.

 

May, T. and Williams, M. 2010 ‘Commitment and Investigation in Knowing the Social World’. In Olsen, W. (ed). Realist Methodology, Volume 1: Practical Realist Ontology. London: SAGE.

 

May, T. and Powell, J. 2007 ‘Michel Foucault’. In Edwards, T. (ed). Cultural Theory: Classical and Contemporary Positions. London: SAGE.

May, T 2006 ‘Critical Theory’. In Booth, C. and Harrington, J (eds). Developing Business Knowledge. UWE/ SAGE.

 

May, T. 2005 ‘Reflexivity and Sociological Practice’. In Williams, M. (ed). The Philosophical Foundations of Social Research, Volume 3: Social Reality and the Social Context of Social Research. London: SAGE.

 

May, T. 2004 ‘Poststructuralism’, ‘Critical Theory’, ‘Postempiricism’. In Bryman, A., Lewis-Beck, M. and Futing Liao, T. (eds). Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE.

May, T. 2002 ‘The Discontented Epoch: Freedom and Security in Bauman’s Postmodernity'. In Beilharz, P. (ed). Zygmunt Bauman: 4 Volumes. Volume 3, ‘The Postmodern’. London: SAGE.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Tim May and Antony A Vass
The Shifting Sands of Working with Offenders
PART ONE: ISSUES
Probation Training - Mike Nellis
The Links with Social Work
The Essential Skills of Probation Work - Gwyneth Boswell
Discrimination and Anti-Discrimination in Probation - David Denney
Values in Context - Ellis Finkelstein
Quality Assurance, Autonomy and Accountability
Masculinity, the Probation Service and the Causes of Offending Behaviour - Karen Buckley
PART TWO: CONTEXTS
The Role of Probation Committees in Policing the Development of the Probation Service - Simon Holdaway
Pre-Sentence Reports - David Smith
Community Penalties - Antony A Vass
The Politics of Punishment
The Transition from Prison to Community - Brian Williams
PART THREE: OUTCOMES
New Partnerships in Work with Offenders and Crime Prevention Work - Bob Broad
Crime Prevention - Daniel Gilling
Evaluating Probation - Peter Raynor
The Rehabilitation of Effectiveness

Editorial Reviews

‘As a practitioner I found it helpful and illuminating to find all the key debates and issues, together with some summaries available research and evidence, in one volume' - Youth and Policy

‘A recurrent theme is the increasing centralisation of probation policy, increasing managerialism and the implications thereof for professional autonomy and accountability.... In conveying clearly the context of contemporary probation practice, this book will be of particular value to students on courses which themselves, ironically, have fallen victim to centralised initiatives that deny the relevance of social work values and skills to work with offenders' - Community Care

From the Publisher

Twelve essays written by probabtion professionals in the United Kingdom discuss social policy as it affects case workers, clients, families, and communities. Specific issues include training, reporting, gender and racial conflict, community partnerships, and crime prevention. The discussions highlight the debate between therapeutic, rehabilitative approaches and "get tough on crime" governmental regimes. Paper edition (7622-4), $22.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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