Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces is a very innovative and novel book, which seeks to improve criminal justice workplace practice by translating research into policy, but also to help develop best practice work environments. This is a must-read for those concerned with workplaces in the criminal justice field.
Sir Cary Cooper, 50th Anniversary Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health, Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK
This book addresses issues which, for many years, have been recognised as having a major effect on the functioning of criminal justice organisations. The authors provide a comprehensive and informative review of theory and research on these issues, along with practical suggestions on how to improve the work environment of these organisations. The book offers an extremely valuable synthesis of research and practice for both researchers and practitioners in this field.
Michael ODriscoll, Professor of Psychology, University of Waikato, New Zealand
More than ever the criminal justice sector is in the focus of public attention. So the time is ripe for a state-of-the-art overview that might serve as a basis for evidence-based change and intervention. This volume not only provides a detailed analysis of criminal justice workplaces from an organizational psychological point of view, but it also offers tools, solutions and best practices to improve those workplaces. This is a must-read for those who are committed to positive change in criminal justice.
Wilmar Schaufeli, Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces
Whether public or private all organisations within the criminal justice system seek to improve, often from an evidence base, but often find it difficult to effectively translate research findings into policy or design best-practice interventions. This book provides a direct bridge between academic research in organisational behaviour and the management of workers within criminal justice agencies.
The public sector in particular is currently experiencing significant funding cuts and increasingly needs to create optimal workplace strategies to maintain frontline services and preserve the well-being of the workforce. The aim of this book is to equip managers with knowledge about key processes and appropriate research methods, thereby enabling them to more readily understand and apply academic research to their workplaces. The means to translate research findings into implementation strategies are also clearly explained. Furthermore, essential organisational issues that either impede or enhance productivity, employee effectiveness, and management responsiveness to change are discussed, following a common chapter template of problem definition, research and analysis, evidence translation, implementation, and evaluation.
Written by experts in the field, this book applies cutting-edge theoretical discussions and research findings to evidence-based policy. It examines new strategies and best practice in the context of widespread demoralization of staff in the criminal justice sector due to the impact of increased austerity. Improving Criminal Justice Workplaces is essential reading for leadership teams, managers and supervisors in the court, police, probation, and prison services, as well as allied professionals such as forensic psychologists and HR professionals.
Paula Brough is a Professor of Organisational Psychology at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Her early research examining the psychological health and well-being of police officers was conducted in the UK and New Zealand. Paula has contributed over 90 scholarly outputs to the international academic literature in this field (books, book chapters, and journal articles).
Jennifer Brown is a visiting professor at the London School of Economics and Co-Director of the Mannheim Centre for the study of criminology and criminal justice. She has conducted research on occupational stress within the police service as well as making a special study of gender within policing. Most recently she was the deputy chair of an Independent Commission into the future of policing within England and Wales.
Amanda Biggs is a Lecturer at Griffith University, Australia. Her research focuses on psychological and physical health at work, intervention evaluation, positive occupational health psychology, and workplace bullying. Much of Amandas research experience has been conducted in collaboration with criminal justice organisations, and has been presented at numerous national and international academic conferences.
Routledge frontiers of criminal justice
1 Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control?
Theory, policy and practice explored
Edited by Jo Brayford, Francis Cowe and John Deering
2 Building Justice in Post-Transition Europe
Processes of criminalisation within Central and Eastern European societies
Edited by Kay Goodall, Margaret Malloch and Bill Munro
3 Technocrime, Policing and Surveillance
Edited by Stphane Leman-Langlois
4 Youth Justice in Context
Community, compliance and young people
Mairead Seymour
5 Women, Punishment and Social Justice
Human rights and penal practices
Margaret Malloch and Gill McIvor
6 Handbook of Policing, Ethics and Professional Standards
Edited by Allyson MacVean, Peter Spindler and Charlotte Solf
7 Contrasts in Punishment
An explanation of Anglophone excess and Nordic exceptionalism
John Pratt and Anna Eriksson
8 Victims of Environmental Harm
Rights, recognition and redress under National and International Law
Matthew Hall
9 Doing Probation Work
Identity in a criminal justice occupation
Rob C. Mawby and Anne Worrall
10 Justice Reinvestment
Can the criminal justice system deliver more for less?
Chris Fox, Kevin Albertson and Kevin Wong
11 Epidemiological Criminology
Theory to practice
Edited by Eve Waltermaurer and Timothy A. Akers
12 Policing cities
Urban securitization and regulation in a 21st century world
Edited by Randy K. Lippert and Kevin Walby
13 Restorative Justice in Transition
Kerry Clamp
14 International Perspectives on Police Education and Training
Edited by Perry Stanislas
15 Understanding Penal Practice
Edited by loan Durnescu and Fergus McNeill
16 Perceptions of Criminal Justice
Vicky De Mesmaecker
17 Transforming Criminal Justice?
Problem-solving and court specialization
Jane Donoghue
18 Policing in Taiwan
From authoritarianism to democracy
Liqun Cao, Lanying Huang and Ivan Y. Sun
19 Reparation for Victims of Crimes against Humanity
The healing role of reparation
Edited by Jo-Anne M. Wemmers
20 Victims of Violence and Restorative Practices
Finding a voice
Tinneke Van Camp
21 Long-Term Imprisonment and Human Rights
Edited by Kirstin Drenkhahn, Manuela Dudeck and Frieder Dnkel
22 Working within the Forensic Paradigm
Cross-discipline approaches for policy and practice
Edited by Rosemary Sheehan and James Ogloff
23 Positive Criminology
Edited by Natti Ronel and Dana Segev
