Description:
How can evidence-based skills and practices reduce re-offending, support desistance, and encourage service user engagement during supervision in criminal justice settings? How can those who work with service users in these settings apply these skills and practices?
This book is the first to bring together international research on skills and practices in probation and youth justice, while exploring the wider contexts that affect their implementation in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Wide-ranging in scope, it also covers effective approaches to working with diverse groups such as ethnic minority service users, women and young people.
Brief description: Pamela Ugwudike is Professor of Criminology at the University of Southampton, UK. She has international expertise in the ethics and governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, with a focus on the data-driven technologies informing criminal justice policy and practice. Professor Ugwudike has led interdisciplinary projects on the ethics of advanced predictive tools (2019-2021) and online social networking algorithms (2021-2025), with funding from the Alan Turing Institute (the UK's national institute for data science and artificial intelligence) and the Economic and Social Research Council respectively. Her forthcoming books include "The Globalisation of Pre-Crime AI in Justice Systems: Logics, Challenges, and Governance" (Publisher: Bristol University Press 2026), and a "Handbook of Digital Technologies in Criminal Justice" to be published by Oxford University Press (2026). Professor Ugwudike is also co-Editor-in-Chief of Criminology and Criminal Justice Journal (the flagship Journal of the British Society of Criminology)
Review Quotes: "...of interest to any probation practitioner, of any grade or organisation, in this book and I would encourage you to take the time to read and reflect upon its insightful contributions." Probation Quarterly