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Total Institutions and Reinvented Identitiesby Dr Susie Scott
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 80.00Why do people enter total institutions ? places that confine and control them around the clock ? and how does the experience change them? This book updates Goffman's classic model by introducing the Re-inventive Institution, where members voluntarily commit themselves to pursue regimes of self-improvement. more...
Offenders, Deviants or Patients?by Herschel Prins
Routledge 1995; US$ 37.50Examines the relationship between mental abnormality and criminal behaviour, the ways this is used or misused in the courts and the treatment available. Thoroughly updated and unique in its multidisciplinary approach. more...
Mental Handicapby Simon Dyson
Routledge 1987; US$ 170.00The author examines the problems facing parents of mentally-handicapped children and the responses of doctors, psychologists and teachers who work with them. more...
Racism and Anti-Racism in Probationby David Denney
Routledge 1992; US$ 59.95Drawing on detailed ethnographic material, Denney presents a challenging analysis of the complex processes by which black people are treated differentially by probation services, and offers suggestions for improved probation practice. more...
Children and Young People Who Sexually Abuse Othersby Marcus Erooga; Valerie Howarth; Helen Masson
Routledge 1999; US$ 48.95Presents key research findings about incidence, prevalence and characteristics of young sexual abusers. more...
Motivating Offenders to Changeby Mary McMurran
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2003; US$ 77.95There is increasing pressure, soon to be legislation, for particular offenders to be given a choice of psychological treatment or imprisonment, even if treatment must sometimes be within special prison hospitals or units for offenders. The key issue will be motivating offenders to commit themselves to treatment, and to maintain their motivation trough the therapeutic programme and thereafter, on release. This is the first book to tackle the subject of motivating offenders in therapeutic programmes and as such, will prove an invaluable resource for forensic practitioners. * Written by some of the top clinical and forensic practitioners and researchers in offender rehabilitation * There is a real demand for a book on this subject as a result... more...
The Handbook of Victim Offender Mediationby Mark S. Umbreit
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 78.00Written by Mark Umbreit, internationally known for his work in restorative justice, this indispensable resource offers an empirically grounded, state-of-the-art analysis of the application and impact of victim offender mediation, a movement that has spread throughout North America and abroad. The Handbook of Victim Offender Mediation provides practical guidance and resources for offering victim meditation in property crimes, in minor assaults, and, more recently, with crimes of severe violence, including with family members of murder victims who request to meet the offender. more...
Discourse Power and Justiceby Michael Adler; Brian Longhurst
Routledge 1994; US$ 208.00Discourse, Power and Justice is a distinctive and theoretically informed, empirical study of the administration of the Scottish prison system. Based on extensive research which combines theoretical innovation with detailed empirical evidence, the book focuses on the activities of those who manage the prison system. The authors identify the most important social actors in the prison system, located both historically and comparatively, and examine their characteristic forms of discourse. more...
Little Strangersby Claudia Nelson
Indiana University Press 2003; US$ 27.95When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labor. But by 1929 -- the first year that every state had an adoption law -- the adoptee's main function was seen as emotional. Little Strangers examines the representations of adoption and foster care produced over the intervening years. Claudia Nelson argues that adoption texts reflect changing attitudes toward many important social issues, including immigration and poverty, heredity and environment, individuality and citizenship, gender, and the family. She examines ... more...
Foundation Managementby Frank L. Ellsworth; Joe Lumarda
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2003; US$ 110.00A foundation insider's guide to financial management challenges and solutions Foundation Management represents the only single-volume reference to cover tried and true and emerging financial planning and management issues-in both the domestic and foreign sectors-affecting philanthropic foundations. A companion to Frank Ellsworth and Joe Lumarda's From Grantmaker to Leader: Emerging Strategies for 21st Century Foundations, this comprehensive survey not only provides practitioners with a better understanding of the changing financial, legal, and international landscape, but also delivers targeted operational management strategies. Topics covered include: European foundations Nongovernment organizations in Asia U.S. and Mexican relations... more...









