cjm 51: Dangerous Offenders
Kevin Stenson and Penny Fraser put this issue into perspective.
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Full list of articles in print version of cjm 51
- EDITORIAL
Kevin Stenson and Penny Fraser put this issue into perspective - MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS OF DANGEROUSNESS
Chris Greer argues that sensationalised media coverage of violent crime leads to a climate of fear and intolerance - SERIAL MURDER, SOCIAL MEMORY AND CONTEMPORARY IMAGINATION
James Sheptycki dissects the self-mythologising memoirs of a serial killer - PERCEPTIONS OF MALE BATTERERS
In the past men who committed violence at home were protected by public attitudes that blamed the victim. Mieko Bond describes a Merseyside campaign tackling these misperceptions - DANGEROUS DRIVERS OR ANY DRIVER?
Claire Corbett describes an unsuspected source of potential danger - DEALING WITH DANGEROUSNESS: THE PAROLE BOARD PERSPECTIVE
Jo Dobry talks to colleagues at the Board about the process of risk assessment and what it feels like to release someone who has been dangerous in the past - DETAINING DANGEROUS OFFENDERS: DANGEROUS CONFUSIONS AND DANGEROUS POLITICS
Barbara Hudson explains the variety of legal and political definitions of people described as `dangerous' - DANGEROUS AND SEVERE PERSONALITY DISORDER: DIFFICULTIES IN ASSESSMENT
Lucy Smith describes the aspects of the DSPD programme that have attracted controversy - WORKING WITH CONCEPTS OF `DANGEROUSNESS' IN THE CONTEXT OF MENTAL HEALTH LAW
Jill Peay examines legislation giving powers to detain or treat people described as `dangerous' - DEVELOPING MAPPA: MULTI-AGENCY PUBLIC PROTECTION ARRANGEMENTS
Tim Bryan and William Payne explain why MAPPA deserve a higher profile and great public support - DSPD UNITS AT HMP WHITEMOOR
Jamie Bennett describes the work being done with offenders identified as DSPD at the pilot treatment project at HMP Whitemoor - THE YOUNG SEXUAL OFFENDER: MANAGING `THE DANGEROUS'
Julie Brownlie examines some of the contradictions involved in dealing with young sexual offenders through the criminal justice system - RISK AND PUBLIC PROTECTION: REFLECTIONS ON TECHNOLOGY AND ORATORY
Bill Hebenton argues that contemporary practice in managing dangerous offenders is obscured by the magical rhetoric of risk assessment - VISOR - VIOLENT AND SEX OFFENDER REGISTER
David Edwards describes the new national database of sex offenders - THE WORK OF THE DERWENT INITIATIVE
Judy Hughes describes an innovative approach to coordinating inter-agency response to sexual offending - CJM UPDATE
Una Padel reviews the Anti-Social Behaviour White Paper, drug testing and plans to extend the DNA database - FROM CRIME AND DISORDER REDUCTION TO SAFER COMMUNITIES SERVICES
Martin Davis , Head of Safer Communities Services in the London Borough of Hackney, outlines the second stage of development of crime and disorder reduction partnerships - BOOK REVIEWS
Martin Wright reviews Restorative Justice and the Law, (ed) Lode Walgrave.Andrew Sanders reviews Critical Criminology by K. Carrington and R. Hogg and Policing, Ethics and Human Rights by P. Neyroud and A. Beckley