Download or read book National Offender Management Service written by Great Britain. National Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2009 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintaining prisons at a safe and acceptable standard is an expensive and complex undertaking. This National Audit Office investigation of maintenance and upkeep of the UK prisons finds that the National Offender Management Service Executive Agency (NOMS) has obtained good value for money from its expenditure on prison maintenance. In spite of an increasing prisoner population - over 73,000 people held in custody in public sector prisons in England and Wales in 2007-08 - spending has been kept at around £320 million in recent years. Nevertheless, the Agency Service could improve its plans for maintaining assets over their economic life and how it manages risks to the effective utilisation of its assets.
Download or read book Annual Report and Accounts written by Great Britain. National Offender Management Service and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The role of the Probation Service written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Justice Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Additional written evidence is contained in Volume 3, available on the Committee website at www.parliament.uk/justicecom
Download or read book Handbook on Prisons written by Yvonne Jewkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on prisons, this title is a useful reference for practitioners working in prisons and other parts of the criminal justice system. It explores a range of historical and contemporary issues relating to prisons, imprisonment and prison management.
Download or read book Prisoner Resettlement written by Anthea Hucklesby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisoner resettlement is high on current political and policy agendas. The high reconviction rates of ex-prisoners have been acknowledged for many years but the rapidly rising prison population has meant that more prisoners than ever before are released. This together with the pressure this puts on to the infrastructure of the prison estate and the publication of two influential reports which highlighted the problems faced by prisoners leaving prison has concentrated attention on attempts to ensure that prisoners do not return to prison once released. The resettlement of prisoners is now a priority policy area linked directly to Government initiatives to reduce reoffending. The renewed policy interest in prisoners resettlement forms the context of this volume, which brings together current knowledge and understanding about prisoners resettlement. The book draws on the contributors extensive experience as researchers and practitioners in the field and includes contributions from acknowledged experts. Prisoner Resettlement provides a comprehensive review and analysis of resettlement policy and practice in England and Wales in the early part of the 21st century. In particular it: critically reviews current policy, theory, practice and research on prisoners resettlement explores practice issues through case studies of two resettlement initiatives and an examination of accommodation provision and voluntary sector involvement in prisoners resettlement; and examines the particular issues raised by the resettlement of different groups of prisoners including women, minority ethnic groups, prolific and priority offenders and high-risk offenders.
Download or read book Foundations for Offender Management written by Anne Robinson and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011-07-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title provides a comprehensive account of the contexts and challenges of working with people convicted of criminal offences.
Download or read book Working with the Mentally Disordered Offender in the Community written by Phillip J. Vaughan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past forensic psychiatry has been a sub-speciality of general psychiatry without its own, separate identity. However, since the mid-1980s there has been a growing in terest in the application of community care principles to mentally disordered offenders. A new set of attitudes have developed which have enabled the mentally disordered offender to emerge from relative institutional obscurity to a much higher profile in the community. Although numerically small in relation to the general psychiatric population, forensic patients tend to attract the public' s attention by virtue of their greater propensity for troublesome behaviour. Such a group needs expert community support in order to maintain an accepta bie public face. Unfortunately these developments have outstripped the creation of training opportunities for community staff charged with their support and supervision. Most community practi tioners have had to learn 'on the job' with inadequate support and supervision from senior staff, who of ten have less direct experience of working with this client group than themselves. Just such a situation prompted the authors, in 1990, to establish a module on 'Working with Mentally Disordered Offenders in the Community' as part of an MA in Social W ork at the University of Reading. As the course developed it became clear that the topic and content had equal application to other community professionals working in the field.
Download or read book National Offender Management Service Annual Report and Accounts written by Great Britain. National Offender Management Service and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2013 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policing and Criminal Justice written by Christopher Blake and published by Learning Matters. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an accessible and up-to-date introduction to criminal justice for all those undertaking degrees and foundation degrees in policing. It will also be relevant to degree courses in criminology and criminal justice. The book provides a holistic overview of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) and an exploration of the roles of key players within the system and how the police interact with these organisations. It examines some of the principles that underpin the ′modernisation′ of the police, in particular how the police service collaborates with partner agencies and the rationale associated with the Change Agenda.
Download or read book Working with Women Offenders in the Community written by Rosemary Sheehan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions to this book challenge policy-makers and corrections systems to concentrate on community provision for women offenders and resist popular calls for more punitive responses to all offenders, women included. Contributors come from a wide range of countries including Australia, Canada, UK and USA. They argue that the criminogenic lens applied to women’s offending must be gender-responsive if systems are to be successful at addressing the disadvantage and risk associated with offending behaviour.
Download or read book Government response to the Justice Committee s report written by Great Britain: Ministry of Justice and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government response to the Justice Committee's 1st report of session 2009-10 (HC 94-I, ISBN 9780215543080). Dated March 2010
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Criminology written by Rod Morgan and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The approach of the year 2000 has made the study of apocalyptic movements trendy. But groups anticipating the end of the world will continue to predict Armageddon even after the calendar clicks to triple Os.
Download or read book A Dictionary of Criminal Justice written by Peter Joyce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dictionary of Criminal Justice is the only dictionary that deals with criminal justice from a UK perspective, and in doing so provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the British criminal justice system, including its historical context and contemporary operations. The first three sections of the book explore in turn key definitions, key pieces of legislation and key documents that have helped to shape the operations of the criminal justice system, whilst the fourth details websites of particular relevance to this field. As such, this dictionary provides an extensive but accessible introduction to the important terms that relate to both the development and the contemporary processes of criminal justice. It also succeeds in placing the UK criminal justice system within an international setting through the inclusion of entries that acknowledge the global setting in which British justice operates. Guides to key legislation and documents are included, and each definition is accompanied by references for further reading, making this book an invaluable learning tool for both students and practitioners of criminal justice.
Download or read book Dictionary of Forensic Psychology written by Graham Towl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, forensic psychology has grown rapidly as a subject, with an increasing number of forensic psychologists working in demanding roles in prisons, secure training facilities, and high, medium and low security healthcare facilities as well as other parts of the criminal justice system. This Dictionary is designed to meet the needs of both students and practitioners. It contains approximately 100 entries on key terms and concepts, arranged alphabetically and contributed by leading academic and practicing forensic psychologists.
Download or read book Offender Management Caseload Statistics England and Wales written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bail support schemes for adults written by Hucklesby, Anthea and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bail is a fundamental human right which measures society's democratic credentials. Taken alongside an increasing prison population, there is an urgent need to find alternatives to custodial remands which do not increase risks to the community. This important book evaluates a bail support scheme called the Effective Bail Scheme (EBS), which was the first such scheme directed at adults, and places its findings in the context of bail law and practice. Based on up-to-date research, this book will make a valuable contribution to an under-researched area and provide useful insights for policy makers and practitioners.
Download or read book Delivering Rehabilitation written by Lol Burke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do offenders have the right to be rehabilitated and should the state be responsible for their rehabilitation? Should the public expect punitive and coercive approaches to offender rehabilitation? Why should the state be interested in the reform of individuals and how can helping offenders be justified when there are other disadvantaged groups in society who are unable to access the services they desperately need? Finally, why does the state appear to target and criminalise certain groups and individuals and not others? These are just some of the questions asked in this new text, which offers an analysis of the delivery of rehabilitative services to offenders over the past two decades. It focuses particularly on the ideological and political imperatives of a neoliberal state that intends to segment the work of the Probation Service and hand over the majority of its work to the private sector. Issues covered include: governance, politics and performance of probation, occupational culture and professional identity, markets, profit and delivery, partnership, localism and civil society, citizenship, exclusion and the State. This book is aimed at academics, practitioners, managers and leaders within the field of corrections and wider social policy. It will also appeal to undergraduates and postgraduates specialising in criminal justice, criminology, politics and social policy.
