Crime and Social Policy

Hazel Kemshall is Professor of Community and Criminal Justice at De Montfort University. She has completed research for the Economic and Social Research Council, the Home Office, Ministry of Justice, the Scottish Government, and the Risk Management Authority. She has over 50 publications on risk, including Understanding Risk in Criminal Justice (2003), and Understanding the Community Management of High Risk Offenders (2008). She is the author of the Home Office risk training materials for social workers and the Scottish Executive materials for social workers.

List of Contributors vii

Introduction 1
Hazel Kemshall

1 An International Crime Decline: Lessons for Social Welfare Crime Policy? 5
Paul Knepper

2 Advise, Assist and Befriend: Can Probation Supervision Support Desistance? 23
Deirdre Healy

3 The Relational Context of Desistance: Some Implications and Opportunities for Social Policy 41
Beth Weaver

4 ‘Regulating the Poor’: Observations on the ‘Structural Coupling’ of Welfare, Criminal Justice and the Voluntary Sector in a ‘Big Society’ 59
John J. Rodger

5 What Prospects Youth Justice? Children in Trouble in the Age of Austerity 77
Joe Yates

6 Bleak Times for Children? The Anti-social Behaviour Agenda and the Criminalization of Social Policy 93
Janet Jamieson

7 Social Citizenship and Social Security Fraud in the UK and Australia 111
Gráinne McKeever

Index 129