EVIDENCE-BASED SKILLS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
International research on supporting rehabilitation and desistance
Edited by Pamela Ugwudike, Peter Raynor
and Jill Annison
First published in Great Britain in 2018 by
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Contents
Pamela Ugwudike, Peter Raynor and Jill Annison
Maurice Vanstone
Peter Raynor
Lol Burke, Matthew Millings and Gwen Robinson
Danielle S. Rudes, Kimberly R. Kras, Kimberly S. Meyer and Shannon Magnuson
Martine Herzog-Evans
Ester Blay and Johan Boxstaens
Ioan Durnescu
James Bonta, Guy Bourgon and Tanya Rugge
Angela Sorsby, Joanna Shapland and Ioan Durnescu
Heather Toronjo and Faye S. Taxman
Andrew Fowler, Jake Phillips and Chalen Westaby
Charlene Pereira and Chris Trotter
Pamela Ugwudike and Gemma Morgan
Chris Trotter
Nigel Hosking and John Rico
Chris Trotter
Patrick Williams and Pauline Durrance
Jill Annison, Tim Auburn, Daniel Gilling and Gisella Hanley Santos
Pamela Ugwudike, Jill Annison and Peter Raynor
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Notes on contributors
Jill Annison is associate professor in criminal justice studies at Plymouth University, UK. Her career as a practitioner, in teaching and as a researcher, has focused on women offenders.
Tim Auburn is associate professor in psychology at Plymouth University, UK. His research centres on discursive psychology and social interaction, particularly in relation to institutional contexts such as the criminal justice system.
Ester Blay is a senior lecturer at the University of Girona, Spain. She teaches penology and other criminal justice-related courses both at an undergraduate and masters level. After a PhD dissertation on community service orders, her research has focused on judicial decision making, community sentences and the culture and practices of the professionals involved in their implementation.
James Bonta received his PhD in clinical psychology in 1979. He began his career as the chief psychologist at a maximum security remand centre before joining, in 1990, Public Safety Canada where he was Director of Corrections Research until his retirement in 2015. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, a recipient of the Criminal Justice Sections Career Contribution Award for 2009, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, 2012, the Maud Booth Correctional Services Award (2015) and the 2015 Community Corrections Award, International Corrections and Prisons Association. His latest publication includes a book co-authored with the late D.A. Andrews entitled The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, now in its sixth edition. He is also a co-author of the Level of Service offender risk-need classification instruments that have been translated into six languages and are used by correctional systems throughout the world.
Guy Bourgon is a clinical psychologist specialising in correctional and criminal justice psychology. He has over 25 years of clinical experience in the assessment and treatment of adults and youths involved in the criminal justice system. Dr Bourgon has been dedicated to the development and implementation of empirically validated correctional services. He has published numerous articles on effective correctional treatment services and has extensive international experience in the training and supervision of front-line correctional professionals, helping facilitate the transfer and implementation of empirical knowledge to everyday practice. As co-lead for the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision (STICS), an empirically supported and internationally recognised best-practice model of community supervision, he is recognised for translating Risk-Need-Responsivity principles into useful and practical concepts, skills and techniques that promote client engagement and facilitate prosocial change.
Johan Boxstaens worked as a prison-based social worker before entering into academia in 2006. Since then he has been working as a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Social Work at the Karel de Grote University College, Belgium, and the Department of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Belgium. His research focuses on social work practice in general and on criminal justice social work in particular.
Lol Burke is a reader in criminal justice at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. He has published widely on probation policy and practice and between 2007 and 2016 was editor of Probation Journal. His most recent research projects have been on the impact of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms on the culture of probation and the effectiveness of the new Through the Gate provisions for short-term prisoners in England and Wales. He is co-author (with George Mair) of Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management (2012, Routledge) and (with Steve Collett) Delivering Rehabilitation: The Politics, Governance and Control of Probation (2015, Routledge).
Ioan Durnescu is a professor in the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Bucharest, Romania. He teaches and conducts research in the area of probation and prison. His special interest is comparative probation. Ioan Durnescu is also co-editor of the European Journal of Probation. He is also a member of a number of prestigious organisations such as the Confederation of European Probation and the European Society of Criminology.
Pauline Durrance is currently a freelance researcher. Her research career started at UCL working as a research psychologist investigating the long-term psychological impact of HIV infection and AIDS. She joined London Probation in 1996 as an in-house researcher. Since then she has worked extensively on designing and carrying out evaluations of practice. Her particular interests are the needs of BAME and women offenders.