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Evidence-Based Skills in Criminal Justice: International Research on Supporting Rehabilitation and Desistance

Pamela Ugwudike, Peter Raynor, and Jill Annison

Abstract

This book explores how evidence-based skills and practices can reduce re-offending, support desistance, and encourage service user engagement during supervision in criminal justice settings; and how those who work with service users in these settings could apply these skills and practices to their work. This book is the first to bring together international research on skills and practices in probation and youth justice, while exploring the wider contexts that affect their implementation in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Wide-ranging in scope, it also covers effective approaches to ... More

Keywords: Criminal justice, Rehabilitation, Desistance, Probation, Offending, Rehabilitation, offender rehabilitation, Youth Justice, Evidence, Evaluation

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2017 Print ISBN-13: 9781447332961
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2018 DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447332961.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Pamela Ugwudike, editor
University of Southampton

Peter Raynor, editor
Swansea University

Jill Annison, editor
Plymouth University

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of tables and figures

Notes on contributors

Part 1: Contextualising practice: key theoretical, organisational and policy developments

One Introduction: Effective practice skills: new directions in research

Pamela Ugwudike, Peter Raynor and Jill Annison

Two The effective practice of staff development in England and Wales: learning from history and contemporary research

Maurice Vanstone

Three The search for impact in British probation: from programmes to skills and implementation

Peter Raynor

Four Is constructive practice still possible in a competitive environment? Findings from a case study of a community rehabilitation company in England and Wales

Lol Burke, Matthew Millings and Gwen Robinson

Five Implementation uptake: organisational factors affecting evidence-based reform in community corrections in the United States

Danielle S. Rudes, Kimberly R. Kras, Kimberly S. Meyer and Shannon Magnuson

Part 2: International research on evidence‑based skills

Six The Risk-Need-Responsivity model: evidence diversity and integrative theory

Martine Herzog-Evans

Seven Professional practices and skills in first interviews: a comparative perspective on probation practice in Spain and Belgium

Ester Blay and Johan Boxstaens

Eight Desistance-related skills in Romanian probation contexts

Ioan Durnescu

Nine From evidence-informed to evidence-based: the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision

James Bonta, Guy Bourgon and Tanya Rugge

Ten Promoting quality in probation supervision and policy transfer: evaluating the SEED1 programme in Romania and England

Angela Sorsby, Joanna Shapland and Ioan Durnescu

Eleven Supervision face-to-face contacts: the emergence of an intervention

Heather Toronjo and Faye S. Taxman

Twelve Understanding emotions as effective practice in English probation: the performance of emotional labour in building relationships

Andrew Fowler, Jake Phillips and Chalen Westaby

Thirteen Staff supervision in youth justice and its relationship to skill development: findings from Australia

Charlene Pereira and Chris Trotter

Part 3: Evidence-based practice with diverse groups

Fourteen Evidence-based skills in Welsh youth justice settings

Pamela Ugwudike and Gemma Morgan

Fifteen The impact of training and coaching on the development of practice skills in youth justice: findings from Australia

Chris Trotter

Sixteen Can the recruitment of ex-offenders enhance offender engagement? An assessment of the London Probation Trust’s engagement worker role

Nigel Hosking and John Rico

Seventeen Collaborative family work in youth justice

Chris Trotter

Eighteen Resisting effective approaches for BAME offenders in England and Wales: the triumph of inertia

Patrick Williams and Pauline Durrance

Nineteen The ambiguity of therapeutic justice and women offenders in England and Wales

Jill Annison, Tim Auburn, Daniel Gilling and Gisella Hanley Santos

Twenty Conclusion

Pamela Ugwudike, Jill Annison and Peter Raynor

End Matter

Index