Rehabilitation, Crime and Justice

Author Peter Raynor: Peter Raynor is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Swansea University in Wales, UK. A former probation officer and social work educator, he has been carrying out and publishing research on effective practice in probation services since the 1970s. His previous books include Social Work, Justice and Control (1985); Probation as an Alternative to Custody (1988); Effective Probation Practice (with Smith and Vanstone, Macmillan, 1994); Understanding Community Penalties (with Vanstone, 2002); Race and Probation (with Lewis, Smith and Wardak, 2005); Developments in Social Work with Offenders (with Gill McIvor, Jessica Kingsley 2007); Rehabilitation,

• Defining Rehabilitation Justifying Rehabilitation Origins and Contexts The Rehabilitative Ideal: Advance and Temporary Retreat Adapting to the End of 'Treatment' The New Rehabilitation: 'What Works' and Corrections at the End of the Twentieth Century Against the Tide: Non-Treatment Paradigms for the Twenty-First Century The Futures of Rehabilitation

'A valuable addition to the literature the author is a recognized authority in his field and highly regarded. There are very few academics in Britain who could write such a book.' - Professor David Smith, Applied Social Sciences, Lancaster University, UK'...the best available review on the social history, current status, and possible future of rehabilitation...it is a concise and accessible conduit for getting readers up to speed about the complex issues involved in whether rehabilitation should serve as a guiding theory of corrections.' - Francis T. Cullen, Punishment and Society, 14 (1), 2012