Applying Complexity Theory : : Whole Systems Approaches to Criminal Justice and Social Work /

Applying Complexity Theory : : Whole Systems Approaches to Criminal Justice and Social Work / / ed. by Aaron Pycroft, Clemens Bartollas.

Approaches based around complexity theory are increasingly being used in the study of organisations and the delivery of services. This is the first book to explore the application of complexity theory to difficult practice issues in criminal justice and social work and is intended to stimulate debat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2014
MitwirkendeR:
Arrigo, Bruce,
Bartollas, Clemens,
Case, Stephen,
Grieve, John G.D.,
Haines, Kevin,
Hassett, Peter,
Jennings, Paul,
Lewis, Sarah,
McDermott, Fiona,
McGibbon, Elizabeth,
McPherson, Charmaine,
Pycroft, Aaron,
Robinson, Matthew,
Stevens, Irene,
Williams, Christopher,
Wolf-Branigin, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Bartollas, Clemens,
Pycroft, Aaron,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (328 p.) :; 14 Black and White
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • Notes on contributors
  • Introduction
  • Complexity theory: an overview
  • Risk, attractors and organisational behaviour
  • Why do people commit crime? An integrated systems perspective
  • Complexity and the emergence of social work and criminal justice programmes
  • Child protection practice and complexity
  • Youth justice: from linear risk paradigm to complexity
  • The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: a case study in policing and complexity
  • Intersecting contexts of oppression within complex public systems
  • Complexity theory, trans-disciplinary working and reflective practice
  • Probation practice and creativity in England and Wales: a complex systems analysis
  • Responding to domestic abuse: multi-agented systems, probation programmes and emergent outcomes
  • Complexity, law and ethics: on drug addiction, natural recovery and the diagnostics of psychological jurisprudence
  • Constituting the system: radical developments in post-Newtonian society
  • Conclusion
  • Index

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