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A
Companion Guide to
ENFORCEMENT
3rd Edition
Nigel Stone |
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This
text has become the standard reference book on enforcement for
practitioners in the probation service and youth offending teams,
and has also proved a valuable aid to defence advocates, court
clerks, magistrates and other professionals who need an accessible
but comprehensive sourcebook on the subject.
This
guide uniquely covers the generic provisions governing enforcement
via prosecution, identifies the basis for legal proceedings across
the range of community orders, explains the framework of
enforcement by the Parole Board and the Prison Service, and also
details the enforcement of financial penalties. Also outlined: sex
offenders' notification to the police; breach of hostel bail
conditions; parenting orders.
"Anyone
charged with enforcement will want this book; after a short while
they will marvel that they ever managed without it"
Justice
of the Peace
Paperback
A5 1999 246 pages
ISBN
0 9045 5338 8
£15.00
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A
Companion Guide to
LIFE
SENTENCES
2nd Edition
Nigel Stone (Revised by Neil Stone)
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The first edition of this book was welcomed by
probation and prison personnel as an accessible guide to this
complex area of the criminal justice system.
The first and only practitioner’s text dedicated to
this topic, the guide offers a comprehensive account of life
sentencing from pre-sentence to release on licence, covering
mandatory life for murder, HMP sentences for juvenile murderers, the
principles governing discretionary life sentences, lifer “career”
planning, the “life system”, the psychological experience of
indeterminate loss of liberty, the process of review and the role of
the Parole Board, life licence demands and recall.
Now completely revised and updated to a second
edition, the text explores the extensive effects of the new rules
for offenders convicted of murder which have been implemented by the
Criminal Justice Act 2003 (including minimum terms, indeterminate
sentences for public protection and release on temporary licence),
the consequences of the introduction of the National Offender
Management Service and the new measures in place to consider the
perspective of the victim throughout the sentencing process. The
book continues to be supplemented by illustrative case examples,
revealing the experiences of lifers and those who work with them.
This text will prove an invaluable work for all
probation officers and other criminal justice practitioners, lawyers
and other professionals who need an accessible but comprehensive
sourcebook on the subject, as well as lifers themselves.
"This
invaluable aid provides the thorough foundation of law and
procedure relating to life sentences which is essential for
effective practice and professional credibility"
Probation
Journal
Paperback
A5 March 2008 176 pages
ISBN
978 0 7219 1622 4
£16.00
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Stone's
Companion Guide to
SENTENCING
Part
One: Specific Offences
2nd Edition
Neil Stone
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This
text reflects the need of criminal justice practitioners who
advise sentencers and offenders to have ready access to the law of
sentencing and, in particular, to the approach of the Court of
Appeal in weighing an offender's culpability in the light of
aggravating and mitigating features of the crime in question.
The
first of two books on sentencing law, principles and practice,
Specific Offences details all the common offences likely to be
encountered by pre-sentence report writers, from arson to unlawful
sexual intercourse, identifying the statutory powers of
punishment, the guideline judgments, illustrations of recent
judicial approaches to offence analysis, relevant Magistrates'
Association guidance, etc. The reader is guided in assessing the
seriousness in any particular case, together with the factors
contributing to the type and length of sentence.
A
special chapter explains the kind of factors that can count as
personal mitigation.
Paperback
A5 2010 240 pages
ISBN
978 0 7219 1623 1
£16.50
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A
Companion Guide to
SENTENCING
Part
Two: General Issues and Provisions
Nigel Stone
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Intended
to provide a richer context for the issues posed in Part One, this
book provides a comprehensive but accessible account of the
generic provisions governing sentencing, both as a question of
principle and as a procedural challenge. Particular attention is
paid to recent Court of Appeal interpretations and guidance. It
goes on to detail the legislation and case law relating to each
specific kind of sentence, order and ancillary measure, from
automatic life imprisonment for a second serious offence to
banning orders for football offenders. Intermediate measures such
as deferment of sentence and committal for sentence are fully
explored, as are the consequences of breach of conditional
discharge or suspended sentence.
Although
written with probation and youth justice workers primarily in
mind, it is likely to be valuable to other criminal justice
practitioners seeking a convenient reference book.
Paperback
A5 October 2001 288 pages
ISBN 0 7219 1620 1
£15.00
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A
Companion Guide to
MENTALLY
DISORDERED OFFENDERS
2nd Edition
Nigel Stone
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The
first edition of this book was welcomed by probation and mental
health personnel as an accessible guide to this complex area of
law, covering the spectrum of special provision from the mentally
disordered suspect at the police station through to the
conditional discharge from hospital of restricted patients,
including diversion from the criminal justice system, insanity and
allied defences, community orders combining treatment and
supervision, mentally disordered prisoners, guardianship orders,
etc.
Now
completely revised and updated, the text considers proposals to
reform the Mental Health Act and to introduce measures permitting
the indefinite detention of persons with personality disorders
considered to pose unacceptable risks to public safety. The book
includes illustrative case examples of patient-offenders at point
of sentence and their subsequent management from a legal
perspective.
Paperback
A5 2003 288 pages
ISBN
0 7219 1621 X
£16.50
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The History
of Probation – Politics, Power and Cultural Change 1876–2005
Philip Whitehead & Roger Statham
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This book tells the story of
probation from its religious beginnings in 1876 and legislative
footing in 1907, through to the present day. The substantive
chapters of the book cover the period 1979–2005 and explore
probation by alluding to crime; imprisonment; politics and power;
increasing central control and bureaucracy; criminology; and penal
and social policy.
Written by authors who have spent
many years within the probation service, and therefore been involved
in events they describe, the book provides a unique insight into
probation over the last 25 years. It will be of great interest to
serving probation and prison staff and will be a resource for
trainee probation officers, and also be helpful to students of
criminal justice, penal and social policy in colleges and
universities. It will, in fact, appeal to all those who want a
deeper understanding of the recent changes in probation.
The book has been written to
coincide with the approaching centenary of probation in 2007, and it
challenges certain political initiatives over recent years that have
culminated in the demise of the probation ideal.
"Anyone who needs to understand the
seismic shifts now occurring within community intervention with
offenders will want to read this book. It will also be of particular
interest to criminologists with an interest in community
intervention, staff working in the National Offender Management
Service, anyone thinking of joining the NPS, and, of course,
probation staff themselves."
British Journal of
Criminology
"This excellent book should be
compulsory reading, not merely for trainees, but for all in the
service who wish to know how we arrived at our present parlous
state.
I do urge all colleagues to read this
book.If there is to be any hope for the future then it is essential
that all colleagues in the service read this book now, before it is
too late."
Probation Journal
Paperback, 2006
A5
344 pages
ISBN 0
7219 1700 9
£17.50
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Modernising
Probation and Criminal Justice: Getting the Measure of Cultural
Change
Philip Whitehead
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Following on from his well-received The History
of Probation: Politics, Power and Cultural Change 1876–2005, written
with Roger Statham, Philip Whitehead’s latest book takes the
discussion of the development of probation forwards and to greater
depths. It looks at bureaucratic developments and implications for
practitioners, and takes a philosophical journey that leads to the
exploration of modernisation and cultural change in the probation
service.
In fact, the central theme of modernisation gives
rise to pertinent discussions centred around targets and risk, the
need to understand rather than manage offenders, and the
preoccupation with numbers in what is a people-based organisation.
Accordingly, the book addresses those significant developments,
notably since 1997, that help to explain what probation work has
become in the centenary year of 2007.
The book contains innovative research based upon
interviews with a number of solicitors in which they related their
experiences of probation work within a changing culture.
Finally, arguments are advanced to clarify the
essence of the probation ideal: to be a social work organisation
rather than a computerised bureaucracy; to have objectives rather
than targets; and the central role of probation to be in the
provision of information to the courts.
This book will make stimulating reading for those who
work within probation, as well as the wider criminal justice system,
and the academic community; in fact, anyone who wants a better
understanding of this modernised and culturally transformed service.
Paperback, 2007
A5
224 pages
ISBN 978
0 7219 1730 6
£17.50
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Moments
in Probation
Compiled by: Paul Senior |
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A collection of 100 essays on
probation practice and history by a wide variety of individuals
involved with the probation arena.
This fascinating book was created
as part of the celebrations for the Century of Probation, to mark
and commemorate the Probation Service’s interesting political,
social and anecdotal history. Comprising one hundred essays
contributed by a wide variety of individuals involved with the
probation arena, all aspects of probation practice are covered, from
policy and legislation to research and training.
This series of short essays
represents a reflective testimony to the rich diversity of the
probation ideal and will make stimulating reading for those who work
within probation, as well as the wider criminal justice system, and
the academic community; in fact, anyone who wants a better
understanding of the history of this modernised and culturally
transformed Service.
Comprising the memoirs of some 75 probation
practitioners, commentators, critical friends and academics, as well
as individuals who have served time on probation, this collection of
essays explores the social, political and anecdotal history of the
Probation Service. Grouped under categories including Education &
Training, Policy & Legislation, Practice, Research & Theory,
Training & Staff Development, the contributions capture the essence
of probation and express what probation means to the authors and to
us all.
This book has been compiled by Paul
Senior, a former probation officer, probation trainer, probation
consultant, probation researcher and professor of probation studies.
Currently, he is the Director of Hallam Centre for Community Justice
at Sheffield Hallam University. Contributions to Moments in
Probation have been penned by probation officers, professors and
lecturers in probation in higher education institutes, colleagues
from other European probation services, prison staff, probation
committee members, research associates and even individuals who have
experienced time on probation.
Paperback, October 2008
240 pages
ISBN: 978
0 7219 1780 1
£17.50
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