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The need for a psychosocial criminology -- Mental disorder: madness, personality disorder and criminal responsibility -- The contribution of criminal career research -- Familial and parental influences -- Youth crime -- Gender and crime -- Understanding violence: learning from studies of homicide -- Intimate violence and sex crime -- Public violence and crimes of terror -- "Race" and crime -- Conclusion.

Introduction -- Criminalizing disadvantage : race, class, gender, and reentry in Boston -- Bouncing and the black box of reentry's neighborhood effects -- Dorchester : returning to a "high crime" neighborhood -- The South End : returning to a "gentrified" neighborhood -- South Boston : returning to a "white" neighborhood -- Small towns, poverty, and addiction -- Conclusion -- Appendix A : methods -- Appendix B : research participants.

Probation: a profession in transition -- Probation's professional project -- Transforming rehabilitation: the micro-physics of (market) power -- 'Well, what are you?' Professionalism, identity, and culture in probation -- Probation practice, architecture, and an art of distributions -- Payment by results, 'penal accountancy', and the regulation of autonomous conduct -- 'The right kind of person for the job'? Professionalism, probation values, and emotional labour -- Beyond marketisation? The future of professionalism in probation.