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"Many social workers, probation officers and others in the human services are employed in positions where they deal with involuntary clients. These positions are demanding, and require a specific set of skills. The new edition of this successful book provides an accessible and practical guide for managing difficult and sensitive relationships and communicating with reluctant clients. Fully revised and updated throughout to reflect contemporary research and practice, the book includes a new chapter on collaborative family work as well as an increased emphasis on trauma informed practice. The result is an invaluable practical guide for social work and social care students and professionals to working with both clients and their families"--

Introduction : why collaborative family work? -- Family work models and theories -- The collaborative family work model -- Preparing families for family work and developing ground rules -- Identifying issues to work on and focusing on strengths -- Deciding what to work on first and setting goals -- Problem exploration and developing strategies -- Reviewing and concluding the family work sessions.

Family Group Conferencing (FGC) in child protection is a method of involving families in planning. This paper reports on a study undertaken in the Victorian child protection system, which examined (1) the extent to which the Victorian FGC program actually involves families in the planning process, (2) the extent to which FGC develops case plans which are appropriate, and (3) the extent to which FGC develops case plans which are sustained over time. Researchers observed 28 conferences and phone interviews were conducted with more than 100 participants including family members, staff members and representatives of non-government agencies providing placement and support services. The results suggest that FGC is more successful in involving family members in case planning than more traditional planning processes. Family members believe that FGC leads to more appropriate case plans which are more likely to be sustained. Child protection workers on the other hand believe that more appropriate case plans are developed in traditional planning meetings, rather than FGCs, and that case plans developed in traditional meetings are more likely to be sustained over time. Possible explanations for these findings are discussed, in particular that FGCs may be used for more difficult cases.

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- SECTION 1: THE RISK PARADIGM IN PRACTICE -- 1 The Rise of the Risk Paradigm in Criminal Justice -- Introduction -- Two explanatory frameworks -- From 'crime as risk' to the 'new penology' -- Refining the 'new penology' -- Researching risk in context: An example from the UK -- Challenging risk -- Seeing beyond risk? -- References -- 2 Three Narratives of Risk: Corrections, Critique and Context -- Introduction: Risk in society and criminal justice -- Incorporating risk in British criminal justice -- Three generations of risk assessment -- The introduction and effects of risk management methods -- Contrasting narratives of risk assessment: Corrections, critique and context -- Critique -- Context -- References -- SECTION 2: THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE RISK PARADIGM -- 3 Risk Assessment in Practice -- Introduction -- What is the risk paradigm? -- Do high-risk offenders benefit most from supervision? -- Do actuarial risk profiles accurately predict risk in practice? -- The benefits of working with identified criminogenic needs -- What does this mean for the development of effective supervision? -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Taking the Risk out of Youth Justice -- Introduction -- The emergence of risk-based youth justice: Beguiled by risk factor research -- The rise of risk-based youth justice: Risk assessment and intervention -- The domination of risk-based youth justice: All hail the scaled approach -- The decline of risk-based youth justice: Methodological weaknesses -- The decline of risk-based youth justice: Philosophical and ethical problems -- The fall of risk-based youth justice and the rise of progressive youth justice -- Children First, Offenders Second: Child-friendly youth justice -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Justice, Risk and Diversity -- Introduction -- The ascendancy of risk and risk assessment.

The number of women prisoners has been growing rapidly during recent years and in many places has more than doubled in the past decade, significantly outstripping increases in the number of male prisoners â€" and with particular consequences for minority ethnic, black and aboriginal women, who constitute disproportionate levels of prison populations in many countries including Canada, the United States, the UK and Australia

pt. 1. New directions in theory -- pt. 2. Staff skills and effective offender supervision -- pt. 3. Improving offender supervision -- pt. 4. Significant others and social networks -- pt. 5. Offenders' compliance with supervision -- pt. 6. Offender supervision in its contexts.

1. Female offenders in the community : the context of female crime / Briege Nugent and Nancy Loucks -- 2. Policy developments in England and Wales / Carol Hedderman -- 3. Policy developments in the USA / Maureen Buell, Phyllis Modley and Patricia Van Voorhis -- 4. Policy developments in Australia / Rosemary Sheehan -- 5. Coercion and women offenders / Delores Blackwell -- 6. Victimisation and governance : gender-responsive discourses and correctional practice / Shoshana Pollack -- 7. Working with women offenders in the community : a view from England and Wales / Loraine Gelsthorpe -- 8. Beyond youth justice : working with girls and young women who offend / Gilly Sharpe -- 9. Breaking the cycle : addressing cultural difference in rehabilitation programmes / Dot Goulding -- 10. Women, drugs and community interventions / Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor -- 11. Managing risk in the community : how gender matters / Janet T. Davidson -- 12. Who cares? Fostering networks and relationships in prison and beyond / Jo Deakin and Jon Spencer -- 13. Mentoring / Chris Trotter -- 14. Community mentoring in the United States : an evaluation of the Rhode Island Women's Mentoring Program / Dawn M. Salgado, Judith B. Fox and Kristen Quinlan -- 15. Maintaining and restoring family for women prisoners and their children / Rosemary C. Sarri -- 16. Connecting to the community : a case study in women's resettlement needs and experiences / Becky Hayes Boober and Erica Hansen King -- 17. Working with women offenders in the community : what works? / Rosemary Sheehan, Gill McIvor and Chris Trotter.

Though many more women offenders are supervised in the community than in custody, much less is known about their needs and effective approaches to their supervision, support and treatment. Whilst there has been recent attention paid to responding to the needs of women in prison, negligible attention has been paid to women exiting prison, or on community based orders, and what is needed to work with them to reduce re-offending or entry into prison. Contributions to this book challenge policy-makers and corrections systems to concentrate more on community provision for women offenders.