Crime and Social Policy by Bent Greve(eds.)

By Bent Greve(eds.)

Crime and Social Policy presents a useful exam of the connection among social coverage and crime. It attracts on fresh empirical examine to supply vital insights into the effect of present social coverage tendencies at the lives of offenders.

  • Provides a useful exam of the severe courting among social coverage and crime management
  • Includes illuminating case stories at the effect of social rules on offenders
  • Reviewscurrent social coverage developments and their effect on crime causation, crime charges, and crime management
  • Discusses the function for social coverage in selling more desirable reintegration of offenders into the community
  • Draws on contemporary empirical learn starting from formative years crime, anti-social behaviour, ‘problematic families’, and social safeguard fraud
  • The assortment deals very important insights into the impression of present social coverage tendencies at the lives of offenders

Content:
Chapter 1 a global Crime Decline: classes for Social Welfare Crime coverage? (pages 5–21): Paul Knepper
Chapter 2 suggest, help and Befriend: Can Probation Supervision help Desistance? (pages 23–39): Deirdre Healy
Chapter three The Relational Context of Desistance: a few Implications and possibilities for Social coverage (pages 41–58): Beth Weaver
Chapter four ‘Regulating the Poor’: Observations at the ‘Structural Coupling’ of Welfare, legal Justice and the Voluntary zone in a ‘Big Society’ (pages 59–76): John J. Rodger
Chapter five What customers early life Justice? little ones in difficulty within the Age of Austerity (pages 77–92): Joe Yates
Chapter 6 Bleak instances for kids? The Anti?social Behaviour time table and the Criminalization of Social coverage (pages 93–109): Janet Jamieson
Chapter 7 Social Citizenship and Social protection Fraud within the united kingdom and Australia (pages 111–128): Grainne McKeever

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Acknowledgements This research was supported by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. References Bracken, D. (2010), Differing conceptions of risk and need in Irish probation officers, Irish Probation Journal, 7: 108–18. 37 Deirdre Healy Campbell, E. ac. pdf (accessed 1 June 2011). Cavadino, M. and Dignan, J. (2006), Penal policy and political economy, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 6, 4: 435–56. pdf (accessed 3 February 2012). Comptroller and Auditor General (2004), Report on Value for Money – the Probation and Welfare Service, Dublin: The Stationery Office.

But because we are in a special relation, and that relation is what makes us reflexive in a social, instead of an individual way’ (Donati 2011: xvi). Following this line of reasoning, it may be that it is not just the individual rationality of the person embarking on desistance that has to change towards the social relation in a given social context but also the orientation of the social relation itself. Personal reflexivity develops and builds on the interactions between individuals in a network (social reflexivity), which gives rise to new outcomes that respond and relate to the shifting contexts (or conditioning structures) within which they find themselves.

We all . . got to that point where we wanted out of it round about the same time . . ’ Giordano et al. (2002) suggest that people learn from those whose behaviour represents a contrast to their own. This is particularly so of people whose behaviour previously mirrored theirs and has since changed. They not only have less support from peers for engaging in offending but the observation of change in a credible person is particularly influential where they can identify with the individual and internalize the benefits of responding to this influence (Kelman 1958), in the hope of achieving similar outcomes.

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