Mike Nash is Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth. He has taught students and practitioners units on dangerous offenders for a number of years. He has worked as a consultant to police and probation service on the subject of potential dangerousness. He has written and published widely on dangerousness, the probation service, and criminal justice policy. He is a former senior probation office who has worked in maximum security and lifer establishments. Blackstone Press published his first book, Police, Probation and Protecting the Public, in 1999.

• FOREWORD BY MR DAVID SCOTT, CHIEF OFFICER NATIONAL PROBATION SERVICE (LONDON); INTRODUCTION; CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; APPENDIX 1 - GLOSSARY OF TERMS; APPENDIX 2 - LIST OF RELEVANT LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN PUBLIC PROTECTION; APPENDIX 3 - LIST OF RECENT RELEVANT PROBATION CIRCULARS; APPENDIX 4 - A SYNOPSIS OF MAPPA GUIDANCE; APPENDIX 5 - A WORKED EXAMPLE OF RISK MANAGEMENT (SOURCE: MAPPA GUIDANCE HOME OFFICE 2004)

This book is needed, it certainly helps to make sense of recent developments in the management of dangerous offenders.

Mike Nash is Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth. He has taught students and practitioners units on dangerous offenders for a number of years. He has worked as a consultant to police and probation service on the subject of potential dangerousness. He has written and published widely on dangerousness, the probation service, and criminal justice policy. He is a former senior probation office who has worked in maximum security and lifer establishments. Blackstone Press published his first book, Police, Probation and Protecting the Public, in 1999.

• FOREWORD BY MR DAVID SCOTT, CHIEF OFFICER NATIONAL PROBATION SERVICE (LONDON); INTRODUCTION; CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; APPENDIX 1 - GLOSSARY OF TERMS; APPENDIX 2 - LIST OF RELEVANT LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN PUBLIC PROTECTION; APPENDIX 3 - LIST OF RECENT RELEVANT PROBATION CIRCULARS; APPENDIX 4 - A SYNOPSIS OF MAPPA GUIDANCE; APPENDIX 5 - A WORKED EXAMPLE OF RISK MANAGEMENT (SOURCE: MAPPA GUIDANCE HOME OFFICE 2004)

This book is needed, it certainly helps to make sense of recent developments in the management of dangerous offenders.

Mike Nash is Deputy Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth. He has taught students and practitioners units on dangerous offenders for a number of years. He has worked as a consultant to police and probation service on the subject of potential dangerousness. He has written and published widely on dangerousness, the probation service, and criminal justice policy. He is a former senior probation office who has worked in maximum security and lifer establishments. Blackstone Press published his first book, Police, Probation and Protecting the Public, in 1999.

• FOREWORD BY MR DAVID SCOTT, CHIEF OFFICER NATIONAL PROBATION SERVICE (LONDON); INTRODUCTION; CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; APPENDIX 1 - GLOSSARY OF TERMS; APPENDIX 2 - LIST OF RELEVANT LEGISLATIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN PUBLIC PROTECTION; APPENDIX 3 - LIST OF RECENT RELEVANT PROBATION CIRCULARS; APPENDIX 4 - A SYNOPSIS OF MAPPA GUIDANCE; APPENDIX 5 - A WORKED EXAMPLE OF RISK MANAGEMENT (SOURCE: MAPPA GUIDANCE HOME OFFICE 2004)

This book is needed, it certainly helps to make sense of recent developments in the management of dangerous offenders.