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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Exploring the Global Stage: Globalisation, Riots, Unrest and Protest -- 2 Policing Political Protest: Lessons of Best Practice from a Major English City -- 3 Mobs versus Markets: Bristol's Tesco Riot -- 4 Language of the Unheard: Riots in Popular Culture -- 5 'Innocence Charged with Guilt': The Criminalisation of Protest from Peterloo to Millbank -- 6 The English Riots of 2011: Misreading the Signs on the Road to the Society of Enemies

Insurance fraud is a major problem. Research by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has found that every hour there are 15 fraudulent insurance claims detected and that in 2011 detected fraud amounted to £983 million. This represented 5.7% of all claims in 2011 and in total there were 138,814 fraudulent insurance claims that were discovered. In addition to this there are the many fraudulent claims that slip though the insurers' counter fraud controls. The ABI has suggested this could amount to another £2billion. To put this in perspective, benefits fraud, which secures significant media and political attention, amounted to £1.2 billion in 2011. Insurance fraud is therefore potentially double the size of benefits fraud.

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