Evidence Based Skills in Criminal Justice

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.