Crime and Social Policy provides an invaluable
examination of the relationship between social policy and crime. It
draws on recent empirical research to offer important insights into
the impact of current social policy trends on the lives of
offenders.
* Provides an invaluable examination of the critical relationship
between social policy and crime management
* Includes illuminating case studies on the impact of social
policies on offenders
* Reviews current social policy trends and their influence on
crime causation, crime rates, and crime management
* Discusses the role for social policy in promoting more
effective reintegration of offenders into the community
* Draws on recent empirical research ranging from youth crime,
anti-social behaviour, ‘problematic families’, and
social security fraud
* The collection offers important insights into the impact of
current social policy trends on the lives of offenders
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List of Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Hazel Kemshall
1 An International Crime Decline: Lessons for Social Welfare
Crime Policy? 5
Paul Knepper
2 Advise, Assist and Befriend: Can Probation Supervision Support
Desistance? 23
Deirdre Healy
3 The Relational Context of Desistance: Some Implications and
Opportunities for Social Policy 41
Beth Weaver
4 ‘Regulating the Poor’: Observations on the
‘Structural Coupling’ of Welfare, Criminal Justice and
the Voluntary Sector in a ‘Big Society’ 59
John J. Rodger
5 What Prospects Youth Justice? Children in Trouble in the Age
of Austerity 77
Joe Yates
6 Bleak Times for Children? The Anti-social Behaviour Agenda and
the Criminalization of Social Policy 93
Janet Jamieson
7 Social Citizenship and Social Security Fraud in the UK and
Australia 111
Gráinne Mc Keever
Index 129
关于作者
Hazel Kemshall is Professor of Community and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University. She has completed research for the Economic and Social Research Council, the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, the Scottish Government, and the Risk Management Authority. She has over 50 publications on risk, including Understanding Risk in Criminal Justice (2003), and Understanding the Community Management of High Risk Offenders (2008). She is the author of the Home Office risk training materials for social workers and the Scottish Executive materials for social workers.