Offender Supervision

This important and up-to-the-minute collection of essays by some of the leading scholars in the field will be much used and cited, combining as it does sophisticated theoretical reflections, fresh empirical evidence and careful attention to specific topics...Highly recommended.' Professor Sir Anthony Bottoms, Universities of Cambridge and Sheffield.

`For anyone with an interest in offender supervision...this book is absolutely essential reading. it marks a watershed in the development of research and scholarship in this field, of offering an unparalleled collection of cutting-edge essays on the key issues. It will become an indispensible point of reference for many years to come.' Professor Mike Hough, Kings College London, and President of the British Society of Criminology.

`This is a hugely welcome addition to the literature on work with offenders...offer[ing] the intellectual basis for moving correctional practice beyond the original "what works" agenda, to a new and more effective focus on individual relationships, trust and legitimacy." Professor Mike Maguire, Cardiff University and University of Glamorgan.

`Criminal justice systems across Europe face major social, political and financial challenges at this time...[T]his collection could not be more timely; it will be of great value to the many policy-makers, managers and practitioners working hard to improve offender supervision, deliver community justice and make communities Safer.' Leo Tigges, Secretary General, CEP The European Prbation Organisation.

This major new book brings together leading researchers 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. The book draws out the lessons that can be learned not just from studying `what works?', but from exploring how and why particular practices support desistance in specific jurisdictional, cultural and local contexts.

Offender Supervision will be essential reading for academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, policy makers, managers and practititioners interested in offender supervision.

Fergus McNeil is Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow Where he works in the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.
Peter Raynor is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Swansea University.
Christ Trotter is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work at Monash University, Melbourne.

1. Introduction: ‘What’s New and Exciting?’, Fergus McNeill, Peter Raynor and Chris Trotter Part One: New directions in theory 2. Viewing Offender Assessment and Rehabilitation Through the Lens of the Risk-Needs-Responsivity Model, Jim Bonta and Don Andrews 3. Strengths and Risks: The Good Lives Model of Offender Rehabilitation, Tony Ward 4. The Desistance Paradigm in Correctional Practice: From Programs to Lives, Shadd Maruna and Thomas P. LeBel Part Two: Staff skills and effective offender supervision 5. Technology Transfer: The Importance of On-Going Clinical Supervision in Translating ‘What Works’ to Everyday Community Supervision, Guy Bourgon, Jim Bonta, Tanya Rugge and Leticia Gutierrez 6. Skills and strategies in probation supervision: the Jersey study, Peter Raynor, Pamela Ugwudike and Maurice Vanstone 7. Supervision skills in juvenile justice, Chris Trotter and Philippa Evans Part Three: Improving offender supervision 8. The Role of Risk, Needs and Strengths Assessment in Improving Supervision, Hazel Kemshall 9. Managing Chaos: Implementing Evidence Based Practices in Correctional Agencies, Faye S Taxman and Judith Sachwald 10. Can Structured Programmes Improve One-to-One Supervision? Pauline Durrance, Nigel Hosking and Nancy Thorburn 11. Beyond supervision: Judicial involvement in offender management, Gill McIvor Part Four: Significant others and social networks 12. It’s relational: Integrating families into community corrections, Carol Shapiro and Margaret DiZerega 13. Justice for all: Family matters in offender supervision, Bas Vogelvang and Herman van Alphen 14. Working with families in criminal justice, Chris Trotter 15. Collaborating with the Community, Trained Volunteers and Faith Traditions: Building Social Capacity and Making Meaning to Support Desistance, Tom O’Connor and Brad Bogue Part Five: Offenders’ compliance with supervision 16. Compliance with community penalties: the importance of interactional dynamics, Pamela Ugwudike 17. Case Management in Corrections: Evidence, Issues and Challenges, Shelley Turner 18. The Dynamics of Compliance with Offender Supervision, Gwen Robinson and Fergus McNeill 19. Exploring Community Service, Understanding Compliance, Trish McCulloch Part Six: Offender supervision in its contexts 20. The Socio-Political Context of Reforms in Probation Agencies: Impact on Adoption of Evidence-based Practices, Faye Taxman, Craig Henderson and Jennifer Lerch 21. Revising the National Outcomes and Standards for Criminal Justice Social Work Services in Scotland, Tim Chapman 22. The Purposes of Supervision: Practitioner and Policy Perspectives in England and Wales, John Deering 23. Pre-sentence Reports in England and Wales: Changing Discourses of Need, Risk and Quality, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Peter Raynor and Gwen Robinson 24. Supervision in historical context: Learning the lessons of (oral) history, Fergus McNeill 25. Electronic monitoring: Towards integration into offender management? Mike Nellis 26. Conclusion: Where are we now? Fergus McNeill, Peter Raynor and Chris Trotter