Professor Simon Green's Outputs (6)

Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (2008)
Book
Green, S., Feasey, S., & Lancaster, E. (2008). Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values. Willan

Offending behaviour is one of the most talked about issues in contemporary society. What can be done to stop people reoffending? What can be done to help people escape their criminal lifestyles? This book aims to review and analyse the different ways... Read More about Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values.

Introduction (2008)
Book Chapter
Green, S., Lancaster, E., & Feasey, S. (2008). Introduction. In Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (xvii - xx). Willan Publishing

Our primary motivation for editing a collection of this sort was to begin redressing what we saw as a serious deficit in the literature.  Emerging from our collective experience of working with offenders and training criminal justice practitioners we... Read More about Introduction.

Discrimination and the poor: using incentives and privileges as a framework for anti-discriminatory practice (2008)
Book Chapter
Green, S. (2008). Discrimination and the poor: using incentives and privileges as a framework for anti-discriminatory practice. In S. Green, E. Lancaster, & S. Feasey (Eds.), Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (426-444). Willan. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781843925705

Poor people make up the overwhelming majority of offenders in the criminal jusitce system (Prison Reform Trust 2007; Social Exclusion Unit 2002).  This is troubling.  Either poor poeple commit more crime or poor people are more likely to be convicted... Read More about Discrimination and the poor: using incentives and privileges as a framework for anti-discriminatory practice.

Engagement skills: best practice or effective practice? (2008)
Book Chapter
Tallant, C., Sambrook, M., & Green, S. (2008). Engagement skills: best practice or effective practice?. In Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (75 - 92). Willan Publishing

This chapter will seek to explore the different engagement skills that are utilised when working with offenders and the practical problems involved in such work.  It will be argued that while the opportunity still exists to do contructive work with o... Read More about Engagement skills: best practice or effective practice?.

Conclusion: a time of fear and excitement (2008)
Book Chapter
Lancaster, E., Feasey, S., & Green, S. (2008). Conclusion: a time of fear and excitement. In Addressing offending behaviour: context, practice and values (445 - 449). Willan Publishing

The idea for this book was originally conceived in the autumn of 2005.  Back then the three of us were responsible for managing the academic side of diploma in probation training (DipPS) across Yorkshire and Humberside.  At that time the future direc... Read More about Conclusion: a time of fear and excitement.

Probation Service (2008)
Book Chapter
Green, S. (2008). Probation Service. In Dictionary of prisons and punishment (231 - 233). Willan Publishing

The (National) Probation Service is the organization within the criminal justice system that has responsibility for those offenders serving sentences in the community rather than in custody.