Crime and social policy
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Crime and social policy
（Broadening perspectives on social policy）
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
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"Originally published as volume 46, issue 4 of Social policy & administration"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Crime and Social Policy provides an invaluable examination of the relationship between social policy and crime. It draws on recent empirical research to offer important insights into the impact of current social policy trends on the lives of offenders.
Provides an invaluable examination of the critical relationship between social policy and crime management
Includes illuminating case studies on the impact of social policies on offenders
Reviews current social policy trends and their influence on crime causation, crime rates, and crime management
Discusses the role for social policy in promoting more effective reintegration of offenders into the community
Draws on recent empirical research ranging from youth crime, anti-social behaviour, 'problematic families', and social security fraud
The collection offers important insights into the impact of current social policy trends on the lives of offenders
Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
Introduction 1
Hazel Kemshall
1 An International Crime Decline: Lessons for Social Welfare Crime Policy? 5
Paul Knepper
2 Advise, Assist and Befriend: Can Probation Supervision Support Desistance? 23
Deirdre Healy
3 The Relational Context of Desistance: Some Implications and Opportunities for Social Policy 41
Beth Weaver
4 'Regulating the Poor': Observations on the 'Structural Coupling' of Welfare, Criminal Justice and the Voluntary Sector in a 'Big Society' 59
John J. Rodger
5 What Prospects Youth Justice? Children in Trouble in the Age of Austerity 77
Joe Yates
6 Bleak Times for Children? The Anti-social Behaviour Agenda and the Criminalization of Social Policy 93
Janet Jamieson
7 Social Citizenship and Social Security Fraud in the UK and Australia 111
Grainne McKeever
Index 129
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