This major new book brings together leading researchers in the field in order to describe and analyse internationally significant theoretical and empirical work on offender supervision, and to address the policy and practice implications of this work within and across jurisdictions. Arising out of the work of the international Collaboration of Researchers for the Effective Development of Offender Supervision (CREDOS), this book examines questions and issues that have arisen both within effectiveness research, and from research on desistance from offending. The book draws out the lessons that can be learned not just about 'what works?', but about how and why particular practices support desistance in specific jurisdictional, cultural and local contexts.
Key themes addressed in this book include:
New directions in theory and paradigms for practice
Staff skills and effective offender supervision
Different issues and challenges in improving offender supervision
The role of families, 'significant others' and social networks
Understanding and supporting compliance within supervision
Exploring the social, political, organisational and historical contexts of offender supervision
Offender Supervision will be essential reading for academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, policy makers, managers and practitioners interested in offender supervision.
1. Introduction: 'What's New and Exciting?' Part 1: New Directions in Theory 2. Viewing Offender Assessment and Rehabilitation Through the Lens of the Risk-Needs-Responsivity Model 3. Strengths and Risks: The Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation 4. The Desistance Paradigm in Correctional Practice: From Programs to Lives Part 2: Staff Skills and Effective Offender Supervision 5. Technology Transfer: The Importance of On-Going Clinical Supervision in Translating 'What Works' to Everyday Community Supervision 6. Skills and Strategies in Probation Supervision: The Jersey Study 7. Supervision Skills in Juvenile Justice Part 3: Improving Offender Supervision 8. The Role of Risk, Needs and Strengths Assessment in Improving Supervision 9. Managing Chaos: Implementing Evidence Based Practices in Correctional Agencies 10. Can Structured Programmes Improve One-to-One Supervision? 11. Beyond Supervision: Judicial Involvement in Offender Management Part 4: Significant Others and Social Networks 12. It's Relational: Integrating Families into Community Corrections 13. Justice for All: Family Matters in Offender Supervision 14. Working with Families in Criminal Justice 15. Collaborating with the Community, Trained Volunteers and Faith Traditions: Building Social Capacity and Making Meaning to Support Desistance Part 5: Offenders' Compliance with Supervision 16. Compliance with Community Penalties: The Importance of Interactional 18. The Dynamics of Compliance with Offender Supervision 19. Exploring Community Service, Understanding Compliance Part 6: Offender Supervision in its Contexts 20. The Socio-Political Context of Reforms in Probation Agencies: Impact on Adoption of Evidence-Based Practices 21. Revising the National Outcomes and Standards for Criminal Justice Social Work Services in Scotland 22. The Purposes of Supervision: Practitioner and Policy Perspectives in England and Wales 23. Pre-Sentence Reports in England and Wales: Changing Discourses of Need, Risk and Quality 24. Supervision in Historical Context: Learning the Lessons of (Oral) History 25. Electronic Monitoring: Towards Integration into Offender Management? 26. Conclusion: Where are we now?
