Working with Offenders

Recent years have seen changes in the nature and delivery of social work services to offenders and their families. This work considers the implications for policy and practice of research which has focused on such social activities as assessment, community service, reparation and mediation, probation programmes, social work with prisoners, and work with sex offenders. It considers the more general issues of effectiveness, race and gender, and locates recent developments in practice in the context of the broader policy changes in social work and criminal justice which have evolved over the last few years.