Diana Webster

Anne Worrall

Young children should enjoy learning to speak and understand basic English with loveable Pingu. Pingu Loves English is a two-stage course which incorporates clear illustrations and videos, and recycles new and known language for children learning English as a foreign language.

Pingu Loves English

Brian Abbs

Fun and Games 1

Seesaw

Pat Carlen

Both in the UK and the rest of the world, there has been a rapid increase in the number of women who have been imprisoned. This book addresses key issues that are specific to women's imprisonment, contributing at the same time to an understanding of prison and gender topics.

Analysing Women's Imprisonment

Contributors to this collection analyse the relationship between the position of women in British society and how they are represented and treated in courts and prisons.

Gender, Crime, and Justice

Focusing on England and Wales, it looks at the history of women's imprisonment, data, contemporary issues, theories, alternatives to custody, feminist theories of imprisonment and penal politics, and research methods.

Christine Alder

A critical look at the perceived increase in girls' violence from a range of disciplinary and geographical perspectives.

Myths and Realities

Girls' Violence

Rob C. Mawby

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 and the ways in which probation workers themselves view their role. This book fills that gap by exploring the meaning of 'doing probation work' from the perspective of probation workers themselves. Based on 60 extensive interviews with probation workers who joined the probation service from the 1960s to the present day, this book reaches beyond criminological and policy analysis to an application of sociological and organizational theory to rich qualitative data. It explores the backgrounds and motivations of probation workers, their changing relationships with other criminal justice agencies, and the complex public perceptions and media representations of probation work. The book considers the relative influences of religion, the union, diversity and feminization and, while it acknowledges that probation work is stressful, it draws innovatively on sociological and organizational concepts to categorize how workers respond to turbulent times. This book challenges the dominant narrative of probation's decline in recent literature and constructs three 'ideal types' of probation worker - 'lifers', 'second careerists' and 'offender managers.' Each makes an essential contribution to probation cultures, which collectively contribute to, rather than undermine, the effectiveness of offender management and the future of probation work. This book will be important reading for researchers in the disciplines of criminology, criminal justice, sociology and management as well as probation workers of all grades and those in training.

Anne Worrall

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