Risk and rehabilitation: Management and Treatment of Substance Misuse and Mental Health Problems in the Criminal Justice System - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447300211 ISBN 13: 9781447300212

Publisher: Policy Press, 2013

Synopsis

Substance misuse (including alcohol) and mental health problems constitute a significant proportion of the work carried out in the criminal justice system. Approaches to these often intractable problems have seen the rise of a dominant risk paradigm concerned with public protection and the use of coercion through court orders to access treatment. This original and valuable book considers notions of risk and rehabilitation in detail within the practice of those court orders, whilst contextualising them within a wider comparative literature and research base. The efficacy of these approaches, practice issues and innovations including for example therapeutic jurisprudence are analysed. Risk and rehabilitation also includes discussions of the implications for partnership working and the importance of reconfiguring the nature of rehabilitative relationships. This is a timely book as probation practice in the UK and elsewhere moves into a post 'what works' era, providing opportunities to review the evidence base for effective interventions.

About this title

Review:

"A topical, insightful collection, drawing useful insights from both research and practice, on contemporary developments in working with offenders who are highly stigmatised and face substantial barriers in seeking desistance and reintegration." --Professor Alex Stevens, University of Kent

About the Author:

Aaron Pycroft is Senior Lecturer in Addiction Studies in the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth where he writes, teaches and researches on theory, policy and interventions with substance misuse. Suzie Clift is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich where she teaches and researches on the theory and practice of risk with particular emphasis on notions of dangerousness within criminal justice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1447300211
• ISBN 13: 9781447300212
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Pycroft Aaron