Applying Complexity Theory
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Applying Complexity Theory

Whole Systems Approaches to Criminal Justice and Social Work

  1. 328 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Applying Complexity Theory

Whole Systems Approaches to Criminal Justice and Social Work

About this book

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 debate. It brings together experts in this emerging field to address complexity theory from a range of perspectives (positivist, realist, and constructivist), providing a detailed but accessible discussion of the key issues to whole systems approaches. The chapters cover theory and research on the nature of complex adaptive systems, their application to key areas of service delivery and the efficacy and ethics of criminal justice and social work interventions. The book argues for the usefulness of applying complexity theory to address significant and intractable social problems and also challenges the reductionist approaches to solving those problems currently favoured by policy makers. It will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in social work and criminal justice.

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Information

Publisher
Policy Press
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9781447311409
eBook ISBN
9781447311416
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Criminology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. APPLYING COMPLEXITY THEORY
  2. Contents
  3. List of tables and figures
  4. Notes on contributors
  5. Introduction
  6. 1. Complexity theory: an overview
  7. 2. Risk, attractors and organisational behaviour
  8. 3. Why do people commit crime? An integrated systems perspective
  9. 4. Complexity and the emergence of social work and criminal justice programmes
  10. 5. Child protection practice and complexity
  11. 6. Youth justice: from linear risk paradigm to complexity
  12. 7. The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: a case study in policing and complexity
  13. 8. Intersecting contexts of oppression within complex public systems
  14. 9. Complexity theory, trans-disciplinary working and reflective practice
  15. 10. Probation practice and creativity in England and Wales: a complex systems analysis
  16. 11. Responding to domestic abuse: multi-agented systems, probation programmes and emergent outcomes
  17. 12. Complexity, law and ethics: on drug addiction, natural recovery and the diagnostics of psychological jurisprudence
  18. 13. Constituting the system: radical developments in post-Newtonian society
  19. Conclusion
  20. Index