Crime and social policy / / edited by Hazel Kemshall

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (143 p.)
• Disciplina: 364
• Soggetto topico: Crime; Crime - Sociological aspects; Crime - Government policy; Social policy
• Altri autori: KemshallHazel <1958->
• Note generali: "Originally published as Volume 46, Issue 4 of Social policy & administration"--copyright page.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title page; Copyright page; CONTENTS; 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 Policy7: Social Citizenship and Social Security Fraud in the UK and Australia; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 managementIncludes illuminating case studies on the impact of social policies on offendersReviews current social policy trends and their influence on crime causation, crime rates, and crime management
• Titolo autorizzato: Crime and social policy
• ISBN: 1-118-50980-3; 1-299-15845-5; 1-118-50984-6; 1-118-50983-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910141477703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy