1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice
All the world’s criminal justice systems need to undertake direct work with people who have come into their care or are under their supervision as a result of criminal offences. Typically, this is organized in penal and correctional services – in custody in prisons, or in the community, supervised by services such as probation. Bringing together international experts, this book is the go-to source for students, researchers, and practitioners in criminal justice, looking for a comprehensive and authoritative summary of available knowledge in the field.
Covering a variety of contexts, settings, needs, and approaches, and drawing on theory and practice, this Companion brings together over 90 entries, offering readers concise and definitive overviews of a range of key contemporary issues on working with offenders. The book is split into thematic sections and includes coverage of:
- Theories and models for working with offenders
- Policy contexts of offender supervision and rehabilitation
- Direct work with offenders
- Control, surveillance, and practice
- Resettlement
- Application to specific groups, including female offenders, young offenders, families, and ethnic minorities
- Application to specific needs and contexts, such as substance misuse, mental health, violence, and risk assessment
- Practitioner and offender perspectives
- The development of an evidence base
This book is an essential and flexible resource for researchers and practitioners alike and is an authoritative guide for students taking courses on working with offenders, criminal justice policy, probation, prisons, penology, and community corrections.
1 An Introduction to The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice
Pamela Ugwudike and Peter Raynor
SECTION ONE: THEORIES AND MODELS FOR WORKING WITH OFFENDERS
2 Conceptualizing Rehabilitation: Four forms, two models, one process and a plethora of challenges
Fergus McNeill and Hannah Graham
3 Promoting inclusion and citizenship? Selective reflections on the recent history of the policy and practice of rehabilitation in England and Wales
Maurice Vanstone
4 Should there be a right to rehabilitation?
Rob Canton
5 Human Rights and Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice
Christine Morgenstern
6 Retribution and Rehabilitation: Taking Punishment Seriously in a Humane Society
David Hayes
7 Restorative Justice: A different approach to working with offenders and with those whom they have harmed
Tim Chapman
8 The Evidence-based Approach to Correctional Rehabilitation: Current status of the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) Model of Offender Rehabilitation
Ronen Ziv
9 An overview of the Good Lives Model: Theory and evidence
Mayumi Purvis and Tony Ward
10 Diversifying desistance research
Fergus McNeill and Hannah Graham
11 Doing justice to desistance narratives
Karen Johnson and Shadd Maruna
12 Therapeutic jurisprudence and rehabilitation
Martine Herzog-Evans
SECTION TWO: POLICY CONTEXTS AND CULTURES
13 The ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ agenda in England and Wales: implications of privatisation
Matthew Millings, Lol Burke and Gwen Robinson
14 The Rehabilitative Prison: an oxymoron, or an opportunity to radically reform the way we do punishment?
Yvonne Jewkes and Kate Gooch
15 Rehabilitation and re-entry in Scandinavia
Thomas Ugelivik and John Todd
16 Using technology and digitally enabled approaches to support desistance
Jason Morris and Hannah Graham
17 Prisons, personal development and austerity
Alison Liebling
SECTION THREE: ASSESSMENT PRACTICE
Chapter 18 Risk and need assessment: Development, critics and a realist approach
Peter Raynor
19 A critical review of risk assessment policy and practice since the 1990s
Hazel Kemshall
20 The promises and perils of gender-responsivity: Risk, incarceration, and rehabilitation
Kelly Struthers Montford and Kelly Hannah-Moffat
21 Assessing risks and needs in youth justice: key challenges
Stephen Case and Kevin Haines
22 Pre-sentence reports: constructing the subject of punishment and rehabilitation
Niamh Maguire
SECTION FOUR: DIRECT WORK WITH OFFENDERS
23 Examining community supervision officers’ skills and behaviours: A review of strategies for identifying the inner-workings of face-to-face supervision sessions
Nick Chadwick, Ralph Serin and Caleb Lloyd
24 Motivational Interviewing: Application to Practice in a Probation Context
Sheena Norton
25 Trauma-informed practices with youth in criminal justice settings
Jill Levenson
26 Building social capital to encourage desistance: Lessons from a veteran-specific project
Katherine Albertson and Lauren Hall
27 Working with veterans and addressing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Kelli E. Canada
28 Pro-social Modelling
Chris Trotter
29 Core Correctional Practices: The Role of the Working Alliance in Offender Rehabilitation
Stephen M. Haas, and Jaclyn Smith
30 Gut Check: Turning Experience into Knowledge
Heather Toronjo
31 Applications of Psychotherapy in Statutory Domestic Violence Perpetrator Programmes: Challenging the Dominance of Cognitive Behavioural Models
Nicole Renehan
32 Arts-based interventions in the justice system
Laura Caulfield and Ella Simpson
33 The use of sport to promote desistance from crime: lessons from across the prison estate
Rosie Meek
34 Violent Offenders: Contemporary issues in Risk Assessment, Treatment and Management
Philip Birch and Jane L. Ireland
35 Effective approaches to working with sex offenders
Tim Warton
36 ‘Five-minute interventions’ in prison: rehabilitative conversations with offenders
Charlene Pereria and Phillipa Evans
37 The benefits of mindfulness-based interventions in the criminal justice system: a review of the evidence
Katherine M. Auty
38 Mentoring in the Justice System
Gillian Buck
39 The contribution of ex-service users: An Analysis of the Life and Death of a Peer Mentor Employment Rehabilitation Programme
John Rico
40 Co-producing outcomes with service users in the penal system
Trish McCulloch
41 Victim-focused Work with offenders
Simon Green
SECTION FIVE: RESETTLEMENT
Chapter 42 Preparing prisoners for release: Current and recurrent challenges
Mike Maguire and Peter Raynor
43 Prisoner Reentry in the United States
John Halushka
44 Post-release residential supervision
Keir Irwin Rodgers and Carla Reeves
45 The Health Needs of People Leaving Prison: A New Horizon to Address
Craig Cumming
Chapter 46 Rights, Advocacy, and Transformation
Cormac Behan
47 Strengths-Based Reentry and Resettlement
Thomas P. LeBel
48 The Role of Third Sector Organisations in Supporting Resettlement and Reintegration
Alice Mills and Rosie Meek
SECTION SIX: APPLICATION TO SPECIFIC GROUPS
49 More Sinned against than Sinning: Women’s pathways into crime and criminalisation
Gilly Sharpe
50 What Works with Female Offenders? A UK Perspective
Loraine Gelsthorpe
51 Gender-Responsive Approaches for Women in the United States
Nena Messina, Barbara Bloom, and Stephanie Covington
52 Women’s experiences of the criminal justice system
Megan Welsh
53 Working with Black and Minority Ethnic Groups in the Penal System
Theo Gavrielides
54 ‘Race’, Rehabilitation and Offender Management
Bankole Cole and Paula McLean
55 Hamlet’s Dilemma: Racialization, agency, and the barriers to black men’s desistance
Martin Glynn
56 Applications of risk prediction technologies in criminal justice: The nexus of race and digitised control
Pamela Ugwudike
57 Cultural competency in community corrections
Jessica J. Wyse
58 Responding to youth offending: historical and current developments in practice
Tim Bateman
59 Youth Justice in Wales
Sue Thomas
60 ‘Rights-Based’ and ‘Children and Young People First’ Approaches to Youth Justice
Patricia Gray
61 Effective supervision of young offenders
Chris Trotter
62 Working with young people in prison
Phillipa Evans and Chris Trotter
63 Prevention Work with Young People
Anne Robinson
64 Realising the potential of community reparation for young offenders
Nick Pamment
65 Foreign national prisoners: Precarity and deportability as obstacles to rehabilitation
Sarah Turnbull and Ines Hasselberg
66 End of life in prison: challenges for prisons, staff and prisoners
Marina Richter, Ueli Hostettler, and Irene Marti
67 Older Prisoners: A Challenge for Correctional Services
Susan Baidawi
68 The role of offenders’ family links in offender rehabilitation
Anna Kotova
69 The Impact of Imprisonment on Families
Helen Codd
SECTION SEVEN: SECTION SEVEN: CONTROL AND SURVEILLANCE
70 Approaches to working with young people: encouraging compliance
Mairead Seymour
71 Compliance during community-based penal supervision
Pamela Ugwudike and Jake Phillips
72 The Impact of adjudications and discipline
Flora Fitzalan Howard
73 Electronic monitoring and rehabilitation
Kristel Beyens and Marijke Roosen
74 Integrated offender management and rehabilitation for adult offenders in England and Wales
Anne Worrall and Rob Mawby
SECTION EIGHT: THE MANY HATS OF PROBATION: PRACTICE ETHOS AND PRACTITIONERS’ PERSPECTIVES
75 Probation worker identities: responding to change and turbulence in community rehabilitation
Anne Worrall and Rob Mawby
76 Probation values in England and Wales: can they survive Transforming Rehabilitation?
John Deering
77 Probation and Parole - Shaping Principles and Practices in the Early 21st Century: A US Perspective
Ronald P. Corbett, Jr. and Edward E. Rhine
78 How practitioners conceptualise quality: A UK Perspective
Gwen Robinson
79 The balancing act of probation supervision: The roles and philosophies of probation officers in the evidence-based practice era
Jill Viglione, Christina Burton and Sherah Basham
80 Innovations to transform probation supervision: An examination of experiences across eleven US agencies
Lina Marmolejo, James Byrne, and Faye Taxman
SECTION NINE: LIVED EXPERIENCES FROM THE LENS OF INDIVIDUALS INVOLVED IN THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND PRACTITIONERS
81 Experiencing community-based supervision: the pains of probation
Ioan Durnescu
82 Experiencing Probation: Results from the Honest Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) Demonstration Field Experiment: US Perspective
Pamela K. Lattimore and Matthew DeMichele
83 Pain, Harm and Punishment
David Hayes
SECTION TEN: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN EVIDENCE BASE
84 Features of Effective Prison-based Programmes for Reducing Recidivism
Dominic Pearson
85 Performance Measure in Community Corrections: Measuring Effective Supervision Practices with Existing Agency Data
Brandy L. Basko, Karen A. Souza, Brittney Via, Sara Del Principe and Faye S. Taxman
86 Visual methods and Probation Practice
Nicola Carr
87 Evaluating practice: Observation methods
Kimberly R. Kras, Shannon Magnuson, and Kimberly S. Meyer
88 Evaluating Women’s Programmes
Bridget Kerr
89 Group programmes with offenders
Emma Palmer
90 Evaluating Group Programmes: A Question of Design?
Clive Hollin
91 The Lost Narrative in Carceral Settings: Evaluative Practices and Methods to Improve Process and Outcomes Within Institutions
Danielle S. Rudes, Kimberly S. Meyer, and Shannon Magnuson
92 Probation research, evidence and policy: the British experience
Peter Raynor
Biography
Pamela Ugwudike, Peter Raynor, Chris Trotter
"Giving those who offend the opportunity, the resources, and the support to become better people has always seemed the most ethical of penal aims, but in insecure and turbulent times it has invariably been the hardest to defend and sustain. Historically, not all that has been done in rehabilitation’s name has been wise, kind, or effective and it has long needed the sort of critical friends it finds here to ensure that in both theory and practice it is aligned with human rights and goes beyond merely meeting criminogenic needs. Never before have the philosophical, political, and empirical arguments in its favour – and the numerous unresolved tensions in debate about them – been brought together as comprehensibly as they are in this welcome collection. It sets out all the models of good practice and identifies the contexts and cultures in which they are likely to thrive. It faces up squarely to the moral and practical challenges that champions of rehabilitation will always face, including the new technological ones. It makes a better world possible."
Mike Nellis, Emeritus Professor of Criminal and Community Justice, University of Strathclyde, UK
"Providing effective rehabilitation is a critically important function of the criminal justice system. Significant advances have been made but are hard won, and require careful attention to matching interventions to needs. At the same time, reforms are often compromised by political considerations and resource constraints. This admirable collection by a range of leading scholars and practitioners provides the reader with an up-to-date map and assessment of contemporary theories and practices to help them navigate this complex area, and understand how to choose or implement effective solutions."
Dr Stuart Ross, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia
"This collection of essays brings together an impressive group of authors to push forward knowledge and thinking on processes of desistance and rehabilitation."
Stephen Farrall, Research Professor in Criminology, College of Business, Law and the Social Sciences, University of Derby, UK
"The history of punishing crime is intimately tied to the concept of rehabilitation – or the process and potential of reforming people who break the law into law-abiding citizens. Across time and place, academics and practitioners have debated if rehabilitation through criminal justice interventions is possible and whether it ought to be one of the core goals of punishment. The Routledge Companion to Rehabilitative Work in Criminal Justice provides a fresh international and cross-disciplinary look at these questions, considering rehabilitation and desistance from the perspective of researchers, practitioners, and people experiencing criminal justice contact."
Michelle Phelps, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), USA
