Working With Offenders: A Guide to Concepts and Practices

This book provides a theoretically informed guide to the practice of working with offenders in different settings and for different purposes. It deals with topics such as offender rehabilitation, case management, worker-offender relationships, working with difficult clients and situations, collaboration, addressing complex needs, and processes of integration. The book offers a unique perspective on working with offenders in that it incorporates three key elements: it attempts to consolidate generic competencies and knowledge from different occupations (e.g., social work, psychology, criminology) and different types of agencies that work with offenders (e.g., prisons, community sector organisations); it is written with practitioners in mind, in a way that combines theoretically informed discussion of principles and practices with concrete examples; it examines and compares what is happening in five key jurisdictions: England and Wales, United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.