"This comprehensive text provides an up-to-date review and critique of current theorising about sexual offending. It presents the key ideas underpinning each theory in a clear and accessible manner. Theories are rigorously tested and evaluated, and their merits are examined from…
This comprehensive text provides an up-to-date review and critique of current theorising about sexual offending. It presents the key ideas underpinning each theory in a clear and accessible manner. Theories are rigorously tested and evaluated, and their merits are examined from …
This book is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the management of male sexual offenders in prison settings and the community. The authors emphasize the need to incorporate the findings of practive-based research and clinical experience in intervention strategies. They also …
Briggs and Kennington's new book constitutes a comprehensive and accessible guide to managing men who sexually offend and draws on recent developments in cognitive-behavioural therapy. The authors emphasize the need to incorporate practice-based research and clinical experience …
Restorative justice' is one of the most talked about topics in the field of criminal justice, increasingly emphasised in relation to young offenders. Many see it also as a paradigm shift in criminal justice, away from dominant punitive and therapeutic paradigms, emphasising inst…
Restorative justice is one of the most talked-about developments in the field of crime and justice. It emphasises the reintegration of offenders into communities, rather than their control through strategies of punishment and exclusion. The main aim of this book is to provide a …
Based on no-holds-barred interviews with active armed robbers in St. Louis, Missouri, this groundbreaking volume sheds new light on the process of committing armed robbery.
This book, based on papers presented at the 5th international conference held at Leuven, Belgium in 2002, aims to provide an overview of recent experience of restorative justice.
Restorative justice has become an increasingly important element in reform and change to criminal justice systems throughout the western world, and there are many reasons for satisfaction with the progress that has been made -- from the point of view of victims, offenders, the l…