Offender Supervision New Directions in Theory, Research and Practice

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?’, 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 contexts20.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

Fergus McNeill, Peter Raynor, Chris Trotter