Crime and Social Policy

Hazel Kemshall

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781118509890
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781118509838
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Social Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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

• Cover
• Broadening Perspectives on Social Policy
• Title page
• Copyright page
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 An International Crime Decline: Lessons for Social Welfare Crime Policy?
• 2 Advise, Assist and Befriend: Can Probation Supervision Support Desistance?
• 3 The Relational Context of Desistance: Some Implications and Opportunities for Social Policy
• 4 ‘Regulating the Poor’: Observations on the ‘Structural Coupling’ of Welfare, Criminal Justice and the Voluntary Sector in a ‘Big Society’
• 5 What Prospects Youth Justice? Children in Trouble in the Age of Austerity
• 6 Bleak Times for Children? The Anti-social Behaviour Agenda and the Criminalization of Social Policy
• 7 Social Citizenship and Social Security Fraud in the UK and Australia
• Index