| Handbook of Probation Contributor(s): Gelsthorpe, Loraine (Editor), Morgan, Rod (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1843921898 ISBN-13: 9781843921899 Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK) OUR PRICE: $77.21 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: The Handbook of Probation provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date source of information and analysis about all aspects of the work of the UK Probation Service. This is an essential text for anybody working in probation, studying the subject as part of wider criminology or criminal justice course, or training for it. The book takes into full account the many changes that the Probation Service has undergone over the last few years, and is currently undergoing as probation becomes part of the broader UK National Offender Management Service. Contributors to the book are drawn from leading academics and practitioners in the field, drawing upon the best expertise available. Running through the book is a range of key current issues such as addressing the diversity of offenders and creating effective links with other criminal justice agencies, and it includes perspectives from both probation service staff and from offenders and victims. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Penology - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 364.630 |
| LCCN: 2007296940 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.7" W x 9.6" (2.40 lbs) 648 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This Handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date source of information and analysis about all aspects of the work of the Probation Service. It takes full account of the many changes that the Probation Service has undergone over the last few years, and is currently undergoing as probation becomes part of the broader National Offender Management Service. Contributors to the book are drawn from leading academics and practitioners in the field, drawing upon the best expertise available. Running through the book is a concern with a range of key current issues such as addressing the diversity of offenders and creating effective links with other criminal justice agencies, and it includes perspectives from both probation service staff and from offenders and victims. This book is an essential text for practitioners, trainees and students of probation and those studying it as part of a wider criminology or criminal justice course. |