Book Reviews (4.2)
14 June 2006
Understanding Problematic Drug Use: A Medical Matter or a Social Issue?
14 June 2006
This paper questions the notion that problem drug use is essentially a physiological medical problem that requires coercive treatment, from which success is measured by way of drug testing to determine the abstinence from the drug.
Community Justice Files 11
14 June 2006
Mentally Disordered Offenders: Challenges in Using the OASYS Risk Assessment Tool
14 June 2006
This article examines the centrality of risk both within the Government's new proposals to tackle offending behaviour (Home Office 2004) and within the professional practice of probation officers within a large metropolitan area.
Editorial: Community Courts in the US and the UK
14 June 2006
Community Justice Files 10
15 March 2006
Coercion and Social Exclusion: The Case of Motivating Change in Drug-Using Offenders
15 March 2006
Drug-using offenders have come to be a special focus for policy concerns within community justice.
Whither or Wither Probation in the Twenty First Century
15 March 2006
This article considers recent changes to the probation service, including ‘what works’, desistance, NOMS and contestability.