Actuarial risk assessment tools are used extensively to predict future violence, but previous
studies comparing their predictive accuracies have produced inconsistent findings as a …

Social work and risk have become increasingly linked, and contemporary social work has
been significantly influenced by the risk paradigm. However, the concept of 'risk'in social …

This book arises from a three-year study of Preventive Justice directed by Professor Andrew
Ashworth and Professor Lucia Zedner at the University of Oxford. The study seeks to …

'Noaks and Wincup's book is useful primarily to criminology students for its clarity, use of
illustrative case studies, exercises and end-of-chapter suggested further reading'-The …

This article examines the discrepancies between theories of risk and penality and emergent
strategies of risk/need identification and management. Working back from the strategies …

This book was prompted by concern that 'justice'is very much under threat in the 'risk
society'. In contemporary western societies adherence to long-held principles of justice is …

A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have
shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures …

In this paper, we draw attention to new assemblages with risk in order to highlight the
multiple forms of knowledge and logics at work in new risk assessment practices. We seek to …

“governmental” order that deployed a wide variety of strategies, technologies, such as risk,
to achieve its ends. The intention of Foucault and his colleagues, however, had been to …

The White Paper on Vulnerable Children before the Aotearoa/New Zealand parliament
proposes changes that will significantly reconstruct the child welfare systems in this country …