Tim May / Anthony Andreas Vass (eds.)

Broschiertes Buch

Working with Offenders

Issues, Contexts and Outcomes

Herausgeber: May, Tim; Vass, Anthony Andreas

Beschreibung

Working with Offenders examines the current knowledge, skills and values which are needed by those working as probation officers and social workers for effective and competent practice. As well as looking at areas of practice which are of central importance to the altering roles of practitioners, this original textbook provides a critical appraisal of the policies and requirements which guide those roles.

Autor

Tim May is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Durham. He is the author of Probation: Politics, Policy and Practice (Open University Press, 1991); and the co-editor (with Dick Hobbs) of Interpreting the Field: Accounts of Ethnography (Oxford University Press, 1993) and Social Research: Issues, Methods and Process (Open University Press, 1993). Antony A Vass is Professor of Social and Penal Studies and Head of the School of Social Work and Health Sciences at Middlesex University. He has also authored of Alternatives to Prison (Sage, 1990). CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE Gwyneth Boswell University of East Anglia Bob Broad London School of Economics Karen Buckley Probation Service Nottinghamshire David Denney Roehampton Institute Ellis Finkelstein University of Central England Daniel Gilling University of Plymouth Simon Holdaway Sheffield University Mike Nellis University of Birmingham Peter Raynor University of Wales Swansea David Smith Lancaster University Brian Williams Keele University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications UK
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780803976221
• ISBN-10: 0803976224
• Artikelnr.: 21366894