Multi-Agency Working in Criminal Justice 2e

Theory, Policy and Practice

Pycroft, Aaron, Gough, Dennis, Pycroft, Aaron, Gough, Dennis

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2019
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9781447340270
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

Multi-agency working continues to be a core focus in criminal justice and allied work, with the government investing significantly in training criminal justice professionals. This fully revised and expanded edition of this comprehensive text brings together probation, policing, prison, social work, criminological and organisational studies perspectives, and is an essential guide for students and practitioners in offender management and other managed care environments. The contributors provide critical analysis of the latest theory, policy and practice of multi-agency working and each chapter includes case studies, key points, exercises and further reading.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of tables and figures
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• 1. Multi-agency working and the governance of crime control
• 2. From a trained incapacity to professional resistance in criminal justice
• 3. A time of change: the expanding role of Police and Crime Commissioners in local criminal justice delivery
• 4. Integrated offender management: a brave new world or business as usual?
• 5. MAPPA: sex offenders and managing ‘the other’ in the community
• 6. Protection and prevention: identifying, managing and monitoring priority perpetrators of domestic abuse
• 7. Policing a diverse society: the community based rationale for multi-agency working
• 8. The development of the police role in safeguarding children
• 9. Hate crime, policing and multi-agency partnership working
• 10. The complexity of partnerships in the UK Counter Terrorism Strategy. What might we learn from contemporary efforts to counter hate crime?
• 11. Interviewing children as suspects: the need for a child-centred approach
• 12. Culture Club Assemble! The powerful role of multi-agent relationships in prison habilitation
• 13. Integrated secure care pathways for people with complex needs: service user, policy and practice perspectives
• 14. Removing the ‘dual’ and working with the presenting diagnosis: core processes of change
• 15. Offenders with mental health needs in the criminal justice system: the multi-agency challenge to provide solution-focused responses
• 16. Enforcement and rehabilitation: challenges to partnership working with substance using offenders
• 17. The decline of youth offending teams: towards a progressive and positive youth justice
• Index
• Back cover