Drawing on research integrated with practitioner experience, this book creates fresh 'practice wisdom' for engaging effectively with offenders. Recognising that there are no instant solutions to changing offending behaviour, it provides a practice text encouraging a sense of confidence, enhancing readers' skill when working with offenders.
A great deal has been written about developing effective practice against a backdrop of rapid change in criminal justice services. Much of this is research-oriented and not always accessible to practitioners in their day-to-day work. This book changes that. Drawing on research and integrating this with practitioner experience, the book creates fresh, research-based 'practice wisdom' for engaging effectively with offenders. It explores issues of risk, responsivity and diversity in the context of work with specific offender and offending behaviour groups as a means to highlight those skills and understandings which can be used across the wider range of work environments. The authors break down complex ideas to enable practical application, and each chapter includes questions for reflection and practice development. With its accessible style, balancing academic rigour with clear pointers to best practice, this book will interest everyone working face to face with offenders. It recognises that there are no instant solutions to changing offending behaviour but provides a practice text that will encourage a sense of competence and confidence, enhancing readers' skill and enthusiasm when working with a broad spectrum of offenders.
A comprehensive cookie collection with hundreds of recipes ranging from well-known favourites to excitingly different ideas. Includes an introduction that covers essential techniques such as preparation, baking and decorating, along with useful information on ingredients, equipment and storage.
In a riveting story set in Grant Trauma Center at Cheyenne General Hospital, Faith Britton, RN and Jeffrey Petersen, a fourth year medical student race against all odds to attain a goal they both want desperately...each other. Faith and Jeffrey deal with life and death professionally and competently. What they can’t seem to handle is the turmoil within themselves. When two colleagues die in tragic circumstances, Faith and Jeffrey begin to doubt their chosen profession, their capability and their relationship. At Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Faith and Jeffrey come to grips with their doubts, discover a love they think could never exist, and realize they can’t live without each other. Hand in hand, they return to Cheyenne, their careers and their new life...together.
A frozen world. A deadly secret. And a man who will risk everything.When a corpse with a bullet through its neck is found floating in a fishing hole cut into a frozen lake in Montreal, it appears at first to be a straightforward homicide. But the victim had shadowy connections to the pharmaceutical industry and, before long, brilliant, unorthodox detective Emile Cinq-Mars realises he has a far more complex case on his hands.As Cinq-Mars delves deeper, he uncovers a horrifying web of intrigue which extends far beyond ruthless scientists to the heart of the Mob, and has enmeshing beautiful Indian activist Lucy Gabriel, who has been innocently involved in illegal experiments on AIDS patients. Finding herself the target of a vendetta to destroy those who know too much, Lucy takes revenge with the native Indians. But Cinq-Mars knows it's now a race against time and that he must find her before it's too late. And can he solve the riddle of the death cocktails before his shadowy opponents sacrifice even more vulnerable and innocent men?In this gripping new thriller John Farrow's formidable detective Emile Cinq-mars finds himself in a dark and sinister world where secrets are complex and profitable and no one is exactly who he or she seems.
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