Mike Nash (Deputy Director, Institute of Criminal Justice Studies,

Public Protection and the Criminal Justice Process

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book is a practical and useful reference, ideal reading for students and academics working critically in the area who wish to understand how public protection has reached its present status. It is also a useful reference for probation officers, police officers and policy makers.

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Provides an analysis of public protection and criminal justice. This book explores the concept of 'dangerousness' and its application to criminal justice. It is a practical and useful reference for students and academics working in the area. It is also a useful reference for probation officers, police officers and policy makers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780199289431
• ISBN-10: 0199289433
• Artikelnr.: 20812873

Autorenporträt

Mike Nash is Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth. He has taught students and practitioners units on dangerous offenders for a number of years. He has worked as a consultant to police and probation service on the subject of potential dangerousness. He has written and published widely on dangerousness, the probation service, and criminal justice policy. He is a former senior probation office who has worked in maximum security and lifer establishments. Blackstone Press published his first book, Police, Probation and Protecting the Public, in 1999.

Inhaltsangabe

* Foreword by Mr David Scott, Chief Officer National Probation Service
(London)
* Introduction
* 1: Trying to understand dangerousness
* 2: Sex offenders and sexual crime
* 3: Behaviour causing concern
* 4: Dangerous severe personality disorder and psychopathy
* 5: A look into the future - predicting the risk of serious harm
* 6: Legislating against the dangerous offender
* 7: Legislating for constraint - tightening controls in the community
* 8: Working together - many minds, one voice?
* 9: Managing risk in the community
* 10: Dangerous offender versus the people - what hope for offender
rights?
* 11: Conclusion - where next for public protection?
* Concluding thoughts
* Appendix 1 - Glossary of terms
* Appendix 2 - List of relevant legislative developments in public
protection
* Appendix 3 - List of recent relevant probation circulars
* Appendix 4 - A synopsis of MAPPA guidance
* Appendix 5 - A worked example of risk management (source: MAPPA
Guidance Home Office 2004)

Rezensionen

This book is needed, it certainly helps to make sense of recent developments in the management of dangerous offenders. Simon Green, Lecturer in Community Justice and Criminology, University of Hull