Evidence-Based Skills in Criminal Justice : International Research on Supporting Rehabilitation and Desistance

This book explores how evidence-based skills and practices can reduce re-offending, support desistance, and encourage service user engagement during supervision in criminal justice settings; and how those who work with service users in these settings could apply these skills and practices to their work. This book is the first to bring together international research on skills and practices in probation and youth justice, while exploring the wider contexts that affect their implementation in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Wide-ranging in scope, it also covers effective approaches to working with diverse groups such as ethnic minority service users, women and young people. There are chapters on specific practice in England and Wales, the United States, Canada, Spain, Belgium, Romania and Australia. EVIDENCE-BASED SKILLS IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE Contents List of tables and figures Notes on contributors Part 1: Contextualising practice: key theoretical, organisational and policy developments 1. Introduction: Effective practice skills: new directions in research 2. The effective practice of staff development in England and Wales: learning from history and contemporary research Introduction Canned laughter All I gotta do is act naturally Method champions and the foundations of evidence-based practice So that’s why you are on probation Contemporary models of staff development Conclusion 3. The search for impact in British probation: from programmes to skills and implementation Introduction: social science as understanding, measurement and comparison Early days: optimistic practice and sceptical research ‘New approaches and new methods’ From programmes to skills Next steps? Evaluating criminal justice in post-truth Britain 4. Is constructive practice still possible in a competitive environment? Findings from a case study of a community rehabilitation company in England and Wales Introduction The study Methodology Findings Conclusion 5. Implementation uptake: organisational factors affecting evidence-based reform in community corrections in the United States Introduction The study Methodology Findings Conclusion Part 2: International research on evidence‐based skills 6. The Risk-Need-Responsivity model: evidence diversity and integrative theory Introduction War Integrative theory Conclusion 7. Professional practices and skills in first interviews: a comparative perspective on probation practice in Spain and Belgium Introduction The study Methodology Findings Conclusion 8. Desistance-related skills in Romanian probation contexts Introduction Desistance literature The study Methodology Findings Conclusion 9. From evidence-informed to evidence-based: the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision Introduction Correctional staff behaviour in treatment The Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision An experimental replication: Edmonton, Alberta A large-scale implementation of STICS Capacity building and fidelity Evaluation strategy for officer behaviour Doing the unthinkable The sincerest form of flattery Lessons learned and an agenda for the future Revisiting the delivery of training Organisational readiness Questions remaining 10. Promoting quality in probation supervision and policy transfer: evaluating the SEED1 programme in Romania and England Introduction The SEED training package The study Methodology Findings Conclusion 11. Supervision face-to-face contacts: the emergence of an intervention Introduction History of core correctional practices as it relates to supervision Motivational interviewing as a counselling and/or communication tool Rise of evidence-based supervision models Discussion Conclusion 12. Understanding emotions as effective practice in English probation: the performance of emotional labour in building relationships Introduction Emotions as effective practice The study Methodology Findings Conclusion 13. Staff supervision in youth justice and its relationship to skill development: findings from Australia Introduction The purpose of supervision: clinical, professional and managerial Clinical supervision in the helping professions: key approaches What works in supervision? What doesn’t work in supervision? Need for future research Conclusion Part 3: Evidence-based practice with diverse groups 14. Evidence-based skills in Welsh youth justice settings Introduction The study Methodology Findings Conclusion 15. The impact of training and coaching on the development of practice skills in youth justice: findings from Australia Introduction The study Methodology Findings Conclusion 16. Can the recruitment of ex-offenders enhance offender engagement? An assessment of the London Probation Trust’s engagement worker role Introduction Employing ex-service users The study Methodology of project evaluation Findings Job satisfaction Conclusion 17. Collaborative family work in youth justice Introduction Family relationships, youth offending and risk The study Findings Conclusion 18. Resisting effective approaches for BAME offenders in England and Wales: the triumph of inertia Introduction The contemporary context Theoretical models of social disadvantage and criminality The ascendancy of risk, racialisation and their relevance to discriminatory practice Principles of effective interventions: lessons from Toronto Conclusion 19. The ambiguity of therapeutic justice and women offenders in England and Wales Introduction The study Methodology Findings Conclusion 20. Conclusion Developing and promoting evidence-based skills in criminal justice Implementing evidence-based skills: policy developments and organisational issues International research on evidence-based skills Effective practice with diverse groups Index Part 1: Contextualizing practice: Key theoretical, organisational and policy developments; Chapter 1: Introduction - Effective practice skills: new directions in research ̃Pamela Ugwudike, Peter Raynor, and Jill Annison; Chapter 2: The effective practice of staff development in England and Wales: learning from history and contemporary research ̃Maurice Vanstone; Chapter 3: The search for impact in British probation: from programmes to skills and implementation ̃Peter Raynor; Chapter 4: Is constructive practice still possible in a competitive environment? Findings from a case study of a community rehabilitation company in England and Wales ̃Lol Burke, Matthew Millings and Gwen Robinson; Chapter 5: Implementation uptake: organisational factors affecting evidence-based reform in community corrections in the United States ̃Danielle S. Rudes, Faye S. Taxman, Kimberly Kras, Kimberly S. Meyer & Shannon Magnuson; Part 2: International research on evidence-based skills; Chapter 6: The Risk-Need-Responsivity model: evidence diversity and integrative theory ̃Martine Herzog-Evans; Chapter 7: Professional practices and skills in first interviews: a comparative perspective on probation practice in Spain and Belgium ̃Ester Blay and Johan Boxstaens; Chapter 8: Desistance-related skills in Romanian probation contexts ̃Ioan Durnescu; Chapter 9: From evidence-informed to evidence-based: the Strategic Training Initiative in Community Supervision ̃James Bonta, Guy Bourgon and Tanya Rugge; Chapter 10: Promoting quality in probation supervision and policy transfer: evaluating the SEED programme in Romania and England ̃Angela Sorsby, Joanna Shapland and Ioan Durnescu; Chapter 11: Supervision face-to-face contacts: the emergence of an intervention ̃Heather Toronjo and Faye S. Taxman; Chapter 12: Understanding emotions as effective practice in English probation: the performance of emotional labour in building relationships How can evidence-based skills and practices reduce re-offending, support desistance, and encourage service user engagement during supervision in criminal justice settings? How can those who work with service users in these settings apply these skills and practices? This book is the first to bring together international research on skills and practices in probation and youth justice, while exploring the wider contexts that affect their implementation in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Wide-ranging in scope, it also covers effective approaches to working with diverse groups such as ethnic minority service users, women and young people.|How can evidence-based skills and practices reduce re-offending, support desistance, and encourage service user engagement during supervision in criminal justice settings? How can those who work with service users in these settings apply these skills and practices? This book is the first to bring together international research on skills and practices in probation and youth justice, while exploring the wider contexts that affect their implementation in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Wide-ranging in scope, it also covers effective approaches to working with diverse groups such as ethnic minority service users, women and young people.

How can evidence-based skills and practices reduce re-offending, support desistance, and encourage service user engagement during supervision in criminal justice settings? How can those who work with service users in these settings apply these skills and practices? This book is the first to bring together international research on skills and practices in probation and youth justice, while exploring the wider contexts that affect their implementation in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Wide-ranging in scope, it also covers effective approaches to working with diverse groups such as ethnic minority service users, women and young people.

This title brings together international research on evidence-based skills and practices in probation and youth justice in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Wide-ranging in scope, it also covers effective approaches to working with ethnic minority service users, women and young people