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Title Risk and rehabilitation : management and treatment of substance misuse and mental health problems in the criminal justice system / edited by Aaron Pycroft and Suzie Clift.

Publication Info. Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 204 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This title considers and analyses the increasing role of drug and mental health agencies in prisons. It includes coverage of relevant law and legal process within the chapters and explores the key features of service delivery, the partnership arrangements and the professional and ethical dilemmas that arise.
Contents Risk and Rehabilitation; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction; 1. The numbers game: a systems perspective on risk; Introduction; Complexity and evolution; Organisational approaches to risk; Case study and conclusion; 2. Risk, assessment and the practice of actuarial criminal justice; Introduction; Risk and dangerousness; Risk, legislation and practice; Mental health, risk, dangerousness and criminal justice; The even more 'unpopular' implications; Conclusion; 3. The Mental Health Act: dual diagnosis, public protection and legal dilemmas in practice; Introduction.
Contextual background to Part III of the Mental Health ActThe Mental Health Act exclusion criteria for drugs and alcohol; Care pathways for dually diagnosed clients under Part III of the MHA; Hospital Orders and Restriction Orders; Detention under a Transfer Order; Treatment for DDCs in prison as per the sentencing policy requirements relating to the specific index offence; Discussion of case studies; Conclusion; 4. Risk and rehabilitation: a fusion of concepts?; Introduction; The meanings of rehabilitation; Penal welfarism: the birth and hegemony of rehabilitation in England and Wales.
The decline of rehabilitation and the emergence of risk in criminological thoughtA post-rehabilitative paradigm shift; The reconfiguration of rehabilitation and risk; The 'new' rehabilitationists; The reconfiguration of rehabilitation; Front-line perspectives: human agency and the nature of organisational change; Rehabilitation and risk: criminogenic needs and the transformative risk-rehabilitation hybrid; The future of rehabilitation: naturalistic rehabilitation and desistence from crime beyond correctional agencies; Coupling rehabilitation and risk in criminal justice: the Community Order.
Conclusion5. Seeking out rehabilitation within the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement; Introduction; Drug policy; The Drug Rehabilitation Requirement; Delivering the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement; Expectations of those on Drug Rehabilitation Requirements; Enforcement practice; Court reviews; Partnership arrangements; Responding to complex needs in the context of court-mandated treatment; Evaluating effectiveness; Offender management, rehabilitation and the Drug Rehabilitation Requirement; Concluding comments; 6. The Mental Health Treatment Requirement: the promise and the practice.
IntroductionThe Mental Health Treatment Requirement: practice and problems; How to identify and select offenders; Putting a Mental Health Treatment Requirement in place; Enforcement; Conclusion; 7. The Alcohol Treatment Requirement: drunk but compliant; Introduction; Alcohol; Alcohol and crime; Models of Care for Alcohol Misusers; Alcohol Treatment Requirement case study; Conclusion; 8. Community Orders and the Mental Health Court pilot: a service user perspective of what constitutes a quality, effective intervention; Introduction; Background to the Mental Health Court pilot.
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Subject Substance abuse -- Great Britain.
Substance abuse.
Great Britain.
Drug abuse and crime -- Great Britain.
Drug abuse and crime.
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Pycroft, Aaron.
Clift, Suzie.
Other Form: Print version: Risk and rehabilitation. Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2012 9781447300205 (OCoLC)788273558
ISBN 144730022X (electronic book)
9781447300229 (electronic book)
9781447300205 (hardback)
1447300203 (hardback)