What works in probation and youth justice : developing evidence-based practice / / edited by Ros Burnett and Colin Roberts.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Burnett, Ros.; Roberts, Colin.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xvii, 267 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

The emergence and importance of evidence-based practice in probation and youth justice / Ros Burnett and Colin Roberts -- Evidence-based practice in the National Probation Service / Christine Knott -- Towards effective practice in the Youth Justice System / Cedric Fullwood and Helen Powell -- Assessment tools in probation: their development and potential / Simon Merrington -- Is asset really an asset? Assessment of young offenders in practice / Kerry Baker -- Exploring effective educational interventions for young people who offend / Geoff Hayward, Martin Stephenson and Maggie Blyth -- Probation interventions to address basic skills and employment needs / Ilona Haslewood-Pocsik and Grainne McMahon -- Offending behaviour programmes: emerging evidence and implications for practice / Colin Roberts -- Intensive supervision and surveillance programmes for young offenders: the evidence base so far / Robin Moore -- One-to-one ways of promoting desistance: in search of an evidence base / Ros Burnett -- Using community service to encourage inclusive citizenship: evidence from the CS pathfinder / Sue Rex and Loraine Gelsthorpe -- Opportunity, motivation and change: some findings from research on resettlement / Peter Raynor -- Pursuing evidence-based inspection / Rod Morgan.