Kemshall Crime and Social Policy

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-50984-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy

Crime and Social Policy provides an invaluableexamination of the relationship between social policy and crime. Itdraws on recent empirical research to offer important insights intothe impact of current social policy trends on the lives ofoffenders.
* Provides an invaluable examination of the critical relationshipbetween social policy and crime management
* Includes illuminating case studies on the impact of socialpolicies on offenders
* Reviews current social policy trends and their influence oncrime causation, crime rates, and crime management
* Discusses the role for social policy in promoting moreeffective reintegration of offenders into the community
* Draws on recent empirical research ranging from youth crime,anti-social behaviour, 'problematic families', andsocial security fraud
* The collection offers important insights into the impact ofcurrent social policy trends on the lives of offenders

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kemshall, Hazel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Hazel Kemshall
1 An International Crime Decline: Lessons for Social WelfareCrime Policy? 5
Paul Knepper
2 Advise, Assist and Befriend: Can Probation Supervision SupportDesistance? 23
Deirdre Healy
3 The Relational Context of Desistance: Some Implications andOpportunities for Social Policy 41
Beth Weaver
4 'Regulating the Poor': Observations on the'Structural Coupling' of Welfare, Criminal Justice andthe Voluntary Sector in a 'Big Society' 59
John J. Rodger
5 What Prospects Youth Justice? Children in Trouble in the Ageof Austerity 77
Joe Yates
6 Bleak Times for Children? The Anti-social Behaviour Agenda andthe Criminalization of Social Policy 93
Janet Jamieson
7 Social Citizenship and Social Security Fraud in the UK andAustralia 111
Gráinne McKeever
Index 129

Über Autor(innen)

Hazel Kemshall is Professor of Community and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University. She has completed research for the Economic and Social Research Council, the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, the Scottish Government, and the Risk Management Authority. She has over 50 publications on risk, including Understanding Risk in Criminal Justice (2003), and Understanding the Community Management of High Risk Offenders (2008). She is the author of the Home Office risk training materials for social workers and the Scottish Executive materials for social workers.