Substance misuse (including alcohol) and mental health problems constitute a significant proportion of the work carried out in the criminal justice system. Approaches to these often intractable problems have seen the rise of a dominant risk paradigm concerned with public protection and the use of coercion through court orders to access treatment. This original and valuable book considers notions of risk and rehabilitation in detail within the practice of those court orders, whilst contextualising them within a wider comparative literature and research base. The efficacy of these approaches, practice issues and innovations including for example therapeutic jurisprudence are analysed. Risk and rehabilitation also includes discussions of the implications for partnership working and the importance of reconfiguring the nature of rehabilitative relationships. This is a timely book as probation practice in the UK and elsewhere moves into a post 'what works' era, providing opportunities to review the evidence base for effective interventions.
Introduction ~ Aaron Pycroft and Suzie Clift;The Numbers Game : A Systems Perspective on Risk ~ Paul Jennings and Aaron Pycroft; Risk, Assessment and the Practice of Actuarial Justice ~ Suzie Clift;The Mental Health Act and Dual Diagnosis: Public Protection and Legal Dilemmas in Practice ~ Graham Noyce; Risk and Rehabilitation: A Fusion of Concepts? ~ Dennis Gough; Seeking Out Rehabilitation within the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement ~ Bernie Heath; The Mental Health Treatment Requirement: The Promise and the Practice ~ Francis Pakes and Jane Winstone; The Alcohol Treatment Requirement: Drunk but Compliant ~ Aaron Pycroft; Community Orders and the Mental Health Court Pilot: A service user perspective of what constitutes a quality and effective intervention ~ Jane Winstone and Francis Pakes; Therapeutic Jurisprudence, Drugs Courts and Mental Health Courts: The U.S Experience ~ Katherine van Wormer and Saundra Starks; Relationship and Rehabilitation in a Post What Works Era ~ Aaron Pycroft.
