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Applying Complexity Theory: Whole Systems Approaches to Criminal Justice and Social Work

Autor Aaron Pycroft, Clemens Bartollas
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 mai 2014
Complexity theory—which examines the dynamic interactions of parts in a system—has increasingly been used to study human organizations. This is the first book to explore its application to professions in criminal justice and social work. It brings together experts in this emerging theoretical field from a range of different perspectives, providing detailed but accessible discussions of the key issues at hand, including the nature of complex adaptive systems, their application to service delivery, and the efficacy and ethics of criminal justice and social work interventions. Together the contributors demonstrate the usefulness of complexity theory in addressing some of our most significant and intractable social problems.  
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781447311409
ISBN-10: 144731140X
Pagini: 328
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bristol University Press
Colecția Policy Press

Notă biografică

Aaron Pycroft is a senior lecturer in addiction studies at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth. He is coeditor of Risk and Rehabilitation and Multi-Agency Working in Criminal Justice, both also published by the Policy Press at the University of Bristol. Clemens Bartollas is professor of sociology in the School of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology at the University of Northern Iowa.  

Cuprins

Introduction
   ~ Aaron Pycroft and Clemens Bartollas
Complexity Theory: An over view
   ~ Aaron Pycroft
Risk, Attractors and Organisational Behaviour
   ~ Paul Jennings
Why Do People Commit Crime? An Integrated Systems Perspective
   ~ Matthew Robinson
Complexity and the Emergence of Grassroots Social Work and Criminal Justice Programmes
   ~ Michael Wolf Branigin
Child Protection Practice and Complexity
   ~ Peter Hassett and Irene Stevens
Youth justice: From linear risk paradigm to complexity
   ~ Stephen Case and Kevin Haines
The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry: A case study in policing and complexity
   ~ John Grieve
Intersecting Contexts of Oppression within Complex Public System
   ~ Charmaine McPherson and Elizabeth McGibbon
Complexity Theory, Trans-disciplinary Working and Reflective Practice
   ~ Fiona McDermott
Probation Practice and Creativity in England and Wales: A Complex Systems Analysis
   ~ Aaron Pycroft
Responding to Domestic Abuse: Multi Agented Systems, Probation Programmes and Emergent Outcomes
   ~ Sarah Lewis
Complexity, Law and Ethics
   ~ Bruce Arrigo and Christopher Williams
Constituting the System: Radical Developments in Post Positivist Society
   ~ Clemens Bartollas
Conclusion
   ~ Clemens Bartollas and Aaron Pycroft

Recenzii

“A challenging, insightful, and engaging text that goes a long way in convincing readers of the value of applying complexity theory to criminal justice and social work.”

“This book provides persuasive arguments for breaking away from the Newtonian paradigm of a linear, controllable world and working with the complexity of social systems.”