320 Pages
by Willan

320 Pages
by Willan

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... Read more
Introduction, Anthea Hucklesby and Lystra Hagley-Dickinson  Part I  1. Rediscovering resettlement: narrowing the gap between policy rhetoric and practice reality, Carol Hedderman  2. Theoretical perspectives on resettlement: what it is and how it might work? Peter Raynor  3. Models of resettlement work with prisoners, Anthea Hucklesby and Emma Wincup  4. Researching and evaluating resettlement, Emma Wincup and Anthea Hucklesby  Part II  5. The Swing model of resettlement: some reflections, Kirsty Hudson  6. PS Plus: a prison (lately) probation based employment resettlement model, Andrew Cole, Ian Galbraith, Philippa Lyon and Heather Ross  7. Accommodation and related services for ex-prisoners, Mike Maguire and Jane Nolan  8. The voluntary sector and prisoners' resettlement, Anthea Hucklesby and Jackie Worrall  Part III  9. Women and resettlement, Loraine Gelsthorpe and Gilly Sharpe  10. The resettlement of black and minority ethnic offenders, Kate Williams, Susie Atherton and Douglas Sharp  11. The resettlement of prolific offenders: policy and practice, Julie Vennard  12. Dangerous offenders: release and resettlement, Hazel Kemshall  13. Conclusion, Anthea Hucklesby and Lystra Hagley-Dickinson

Biography

Anthea Hucklesby is Reader in Criminal Justice, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies at Leeds University.

Lystra Hagley-Dickinson is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Northampton University.