Understanding penal practice [electronic resource] / edited by Ioan Durnescu and Fergus McNeill.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Series:

Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; 15.
Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; 15

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (xx, 344 pages) : illustrations.

Subjects:

Punishment.
Corrections.
Justice, Administration of.

Contents:

Introduction: understanding penal practice / Fergus McNeill and Ioan Durnescu
Understanding practice, understanding practitioners
Professional ideologies in united states probation and parole / Danielle S. Rudes, Jill Viglione, Faye S. Taxman
Correctional officer training in Canada / Denis C. Bracken
Who works in the probation service in Romania? / Ioan Durnescu, Vlad Grigoras, Florin Lazar and Smaranda Witec
Explaining french probation : social work in a prison administration / Martine Herzog Evans
Probation practices and übergangsmanagement in Germany : state of play and challenges / Pascal Décarpes
Volunteers in the probation service : a comparison between Germany and Japan / Helmut Kury & Mai Sato
Redefining professionalism by seeking legitimacy in probation? : a comparison between Belgium and England and Wales / Aline Bauwens and Lol Burke
Understanding "the relationship" in English probation supervision / Jake Phillips
What quality means to probation staff in England in relation to one-to-one supervision / Joanna Shapland, Angela Sorsby, Gwen Robinson, Camilla Priede, Stephen Farrall and Fergus McNeill
Staff-prisoner relationships, moral performance, and privatization / Alison Liebling and Ben Crewe
Changing lives, changing work : social work and criminal justice / Fergus McNeill
Supporting practitioners, improving practice
Staff skills and characteristics in probation history : a literature review / Ioan Durnescu
Co-producing desistance : who works to support desistance? / Beth Weaver
Practicing the good lives model (GLM) / Chi Meng Chu, Tony Ward, Gwenda M. Willis
Effective supervision in youth justice : a comparison of data sources / Chris Trotter
Supporting probation officers' evidence-based professional development in the strategic training initiative in community supervision (STICS) : ongoing clinical support activities and the individuals who lead the charge / Guy Bourgon, Leticia Gutierrez and Tanya Rugge
Supervision skills and practices : the Jersey study / Pamela Ugwudike, Peter Raynor and Maurice Vanstone
Supporting practitioners to engage offenders / Sue Rex and Nigel Hosking
Sources of professional effectiveness / Anneke Menger, Andrea Donker
Wraparound care as a booster of the crime reducing effects of probation / Jo Hermanns, Anneke Menger, René Butter, Laurens de Croes, Donnalee Heij, and Lonieke Casteleijn
Aligning the purposes of probation with professional and learning competencies : basic conditions for a new professionalism / Bas Vogelvang
Conclusions: changing penal practice / Ioan Durnescu and Fergus McNeill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Contributor:

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
Durnescu, Ioan.
McNeill, Fergus.
Taylor & Francis eBooks

ISBN:

9780203087220 (electronic bk.)
0203087224 (electronic bk.)
9780415635813
0415635810

Publisher Number:

99977537474

Web link:

The Lipman Criminology Library Fund Home Page

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

Online:

Connect to full text
http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/2242998

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