This report presents the research evidence-base for adopting the 'Child First'strategic
objective to guide the work of the Youth Justice System (YJS) of England and Wales. The …

There is increasing interest in the use of strength-based approaches, such as the Good
Lives Model (GLM), in the field of offender rehabilitation to complement primarily risk …

In an influential article published in the British Journal of Social Work in 1979, Anthony
Bottoms and Bill McWilliams proposed the adoption of a 'non-treatment paradigm'for …

Comprehensive, critical and accessible, Criminology: A Sociological Introduction offers an
authoritative overview of the study of criminology, from early theoretical perspectives to …

In Offending and Desistance, Beth Weaver examines the role of a co-offending peer group in
sha** and influencing offending and desistance, focusing on three phases of their criminal …

Radical social work is a tradition often identified exclusively with the movement which
developed in the UK in the 1970s, yet as this much-needed new textbook demonstrates, the …

It is well-established that the majority of youth offenders cease to commit crime in early
adulthood, but the mechanisms behind the shift from a criminal to a conventional lifestyle are …

For decades, the relationship between the officer and offender (variously labelled as the
'casework relationship', the 'supervisory relationship'or 'one-to-one work') was the main …

The purpose of this paper is to provide a framework for thinking about the work of prison
officers. It is a well-known maxim that relationships are 'at the heart'of prison life (Home …

In an ideal world, there would be a seamless relationship between interventions that focus
on risk factors causally associated with sexual reoffending and the subsequent release of …