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AbstractArts activities have long been used to help rehabilitate offenders and there is anecdotal evidence to support their transformative power, yet providers have struggled to provide 'hard evidence' of their effectiveness. The UK government has introduced Payment by Results (PbR) as a principal component of its public sector reforms. Thus arts projects within criminal justice are now required to engage with an outcomes‐based commissioning process. This article uses an evaluation of the Writers in Prison Foundation (WIPF) to explore the challenges and possibilities presented by this political landscape and to suggest approaches to outcome measurement which will help arts practitioners to survive and flourish.

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Editor's Introduction -- Military Past -- Civilian Present -- About the Chapters -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 1: Australia: Psychs, Suits and Mess Committees on Steroids: The Changing Terrain of Service Transition in Australia -- Who Are Veterans in Australia: Who Is Transitioning? -- You Can Take Them Out of the Military, But… -- The Soldier and the State -- The Psycho-medico-legal Cage: 'This Disruption Isn't Unexpected' -- The Enemy Within: How Veterans Must Fight the State -- Veteran Washing: Exploiting Heroism for Commercial Ends -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Canada: The Reemergence of Veteran Issues in Canada: State Retrenchment and Gendered Veteran Advocacy -- Veteran Research: Historical and Theoretical Considerations -- Veterans in Twenty-First-Century Canada: New Policy for a New Generation of Veterans -- Resisting the New Veterans Charter: Reproducing the Figure of the Deserving Male Veteran -- Challenging Gender-Blind Policy and the Gendered Figure of the Veteran: Military Sexual Trauma Survivors Organize -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Croatia: Victims of Transition? The Role of Homeland War Veterans in Public Discourse in Croatia -- References -- Chapter 4: Estonia: Estonian Veterans in Transition -- Conceptual Framework of the Transition from Military to Civilian Life -- Estonian Veterans Policy: Identity Creation and Recognition -- The Policy Measures Supporting the MCT of Estonian Veterans -- MCT Among Estonian Veterans -- Veterans Policy Measures -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Netherlands: Veterans' Transition to Dutch Society -- Who Are They? -- Veterans and Their Missions -- Registration -- Policy -- Impediments and Facilitating Factors in Transition to Society -- Employment, Housing, and Relationships.

Guest editor's editorial introduction to a four-article special edition of the journal. Albertson, K., Taylor, P., & Murray, E., Place, Space and Identity: The Manifold Experience of Transition In and After the Military, Illness, Crisis & Loss (27(4)). Copyright © 2019 SAGE. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. ; This special edition of Illness, Crisis and Loss brings together established authors in the field of military and post-military life. It is an invitation to readers to critically consider the experience of those serving in the military, and what post-military life ca look like. Each article encourages readers to develop an intellectual awareness of significant issues facing those who serve in the military, and their careers and identity afterwards. Each taking particular themes as their focus, they provide a rigorously informed critical investigation of military and post-military life. Readers of these articles will be provided with a rich, social theory-informed, approach to military and veteran studies. Transition within and out of the military institution is a substantive focus. In the reader's engagement with each article, we encourage them to think about how and where transition occurs. What places does it take place in? What spaces does it change or create, and how are identities formed, reimagined, or recrafted by the self or others.

AbstractWhile only a minority of veterans experience transitional difficulties after military service, there is increasing recognition of the unique challenges that some veterans face, including involvement with the criminal justice system, mental health problems and substance misuse. There is growing acknowledgment that both recovery from substance misuse and desistance from crime are lived transitional processes grounded in social relationships and community. This article reports on the potential of the comradeship and mutual resilience that underpin military life being redirected to support recovery and desistance journeys, through assertive linkage to peer support and community activities, describing a new initiative and an innovative evaluation model.

Ex-military personnel who are recovering from addictions are more likely to succeed in recovery through veteran specific services, new research has revealed. The research, carried out by Sheffield Hallam University's Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice on behalf of charities Addaction and Forces in Mind Trust (FiMT), looked at the work of the Right Turn project, which has been developed to support veterans who are recovering from addiction and helping them reintegrate in to civilian life. Addaction's Right Turn initiative, the first of its kind in the UK when launched, is a pioneering project operating on the premise that the comradeship underpinning military life can be re-directed to support recovery from addictions and desistance from crime. The report presents the findings from the two year evaluation.

The way we think about crime and the way that society responds to it are imbued with values that can determine what is considered important and what gets attention. Sometimes values that are claimed may not be the values expressed in practice, as we see in the multiple and confusing discourses about victims and offenders, punishment and protection, rights and responsibilities. This collection of writings considers values in crime theory, criminal justice and research practice, uncovering the many different 'sides' – to echo Howard Becker's famous phrase – that criminologists, policy makers and researchers take. It spans Marxist, postmodernist and feminist perspectives on criminology, analyses of the dynamics of race, gender and age, research methods and ethics, the working of the criminal justice system and engages with current debates about new challenges for criminology, such as the green movement and Islamophobia. This is a timely and thought-provoking collection which will be of interest to academics and students in criminology and criminal justice, and on professional courses, such as probation and youth justice practice