Working within the Forensic Paradigm
Cross-discipline approaches for policy and practice
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 2014
312 pages
978-1-317-70237-5 (ISBN)
Description
Forensic work occurs across the criminal justice sector and the legal and health professions and intersects with work in a range of areas, such as child protection, family welfare, mental health, offending, disability and addictions, family violence programmes, juvenile justice and sexual assault centres. This book offers contemporary perspectives on forensic policy and practice from the range of practitioners working with people within the forensic domain and canvasses ideas about risk and offending behaviours together with ideas about effective responses to rehabilitation and recovery.
The contributors to this proposed book are drawn from the practitioners, policy contributors, advocates and researchers in mental health, welfare, law, criminology, policing and health. Negligible attention has been paid to forensic policy and practice; this proposed book offers cross-national attention to how mental health, welfare and justice systems intersect, who they affect, and how practitioners structure effective responses for vulnerable people within the forensic domain.
A particular strength of the book is its international focus, making it relevant to academics and practitioners who work in this field around the world.
The contributors to this proposed book are drawn from the practitioners, policy contributors, advocates and researchers in mental health, welfare, law, criminology, policing and health. Negligible attention has been paid to forensic policy and practice; this proposed book offers cross-national attention to how mental health, welfare and justice systems intersect, who they affect, and how practitioners structure effective responses for vulnerable people within the forensic domain.
A particular strength of the book is its international focus, making it relevant to academics and practitioners who work in this field around the world.
Reviews / Votes
'This book gives full recognition that people who offend against the law often do so because of a myriad of individual and social problems, and in careful, thoughtful and insightful fashion the authors give attention to the need for better links between mental health, welfare and criminal justice systems. The contributors question and challenge received wisdom, law, and policy in relation to people who offend, and set out a new paradigm for effective work between forensic mental health and human support services. This is an excellent, authoritative and thought-provoking collection of essays.' - Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge and President of the British Society of Criminology, UK'Practitioners, policymakers, and researchers will all find this book valuable. The editors of this text define forensic mental health matters broadly and have assembled an international, interdisciplinary team of contributors. What results is a sharing of perspectives, paradigms, and strategies that is unmatched by any other publication devoted to forensic mental health administration, policy, and practice.' - Randy K. Otto, Associate Professor, Departments of Mental Health Law and Policy, Psychology, and Criminology, University of South Florida, USA
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
6 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white
File size
1,38 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-70237-5 (9781317702375)
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Rosemary Sheehan | James Ogloff
Working within the Forensic Paradigm
Cross-discipline approaches for policy and practice
Book
11/2016
1st Edition
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Rosemary Sheehan | James Ogloff
Working within the Forensic Paradigm
Cross-discipline approaches for policy and practice
Book
11/2014
1st Edition
Routledge
€233.60
Shipment within 10-20 days
Persons
Rosemary Sheehan is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Work, Monash University, Australia. Her published research has looked at child welfare and the law, mental health and judicial and corrections responses to offenders, with particular reference to women offenders. Her recent research developed a specialist list project in the Children's Court of Victoria to hear matters involving child sexual abuse; she recently completed a major study of women exiting prison.
James Ogloff is the Foundation Professor of Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University and Director of Psychological Services and Research at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare). He is trained as a psychologist and lawyer, a Fellow of the Canadian, American, and Australian psychological societies. His research addresses violence risk prediction, psychopathy and jury decision making, and long-term outcomes for children who have been sexually abused.
James Ogloff is the Foundation Professor of Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne University and Director of Psychological Services and Research at the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare). He is trained as a psychologist and lawyer, a Fellow of the Canadian, American, and Australian psychological societies. His research addresses violence risk prediction, psychopathy and jury decision making, and long-term outcomes for children who have been sexually abused.
Content
Introducing the Forensic Domain, Rosemary Sheehan and James Ogloff Part one: the forensic domain 1. Practising in the forensic context: Cross-disciplinary perspectives, Rosemary Sheehan 2. Implementing the risk paradigm: evidence and values, Andrew Carroll 3. Beyond the risk paradigm: maintaining the place of the client in criminal justice interventions, Chris Trotter 4. Risk management and challenges for workers and services, Gloria Kirwan 5. Sexual offending, Chris Lennings, Rima Nasr, Katie Seidler and Emma Collins Part two: Care, control and community 6. Neoliberalism and the criminalisation of welfare, Paul Michael Garrett 7. Solution-focussed justice in the time of 'Law and Order', Jelena Popovic 8. From care to the community: leaving forensic care and the challenge of inclusion, Grant Burkitt , Daniel Kinston, Ronan McLoughlin 9. Policing young people with mental illness, Stuart Thomas 10. Child sexual abuse: giving protection and turning away from future offending, James Ogloff Part three: Justice, welfare and mental health 11. Significant harm: the application of the law in practice with vulnerable children, Anna Gupta 12. Policing, custody and mental illness, Ian Cummins 13. Mental health and the courts, Ronald Francis 14. Vulnerability and resilience in the criminal justice system, Peta Barry Part four: Rehabilitation and recovery 15. The recovery environment: health, homelessness and criminal justice, William Holt and Jacqueline Blatt 16. Mental health services in prison, Sheila Howitt and Lindsay Thomson 17. After prison: managing re-integration, mental health and desistance from offending, Flora Matheson, Amanda Brazil and Pamela Forrester 18. Substance abuse and offending: risk factors and addiction recovery, David Best and Michael Savic 19. Balancing legal, cultural and human rights with the forensic paradigm, Rosemary Sheehan and James Ogloff.
