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 …

Each year, US child protection authorities investigate millions of families, disproportionately
poor families and families of color. These investigations involve multiple home visits to …

It is a ubiquitous pattern around the globe that indigenous peoples who have endured
historic and ongoing collective trauma (eg, colonization) are overrepresented in negative life …

The 'pains of imprisonment'have been a longstanding concern within prison sociology. This
article revisits the topic, suggesting that modern penal practices have created some new …

On any given day nearly 3000 foreign national citizens are detained under immigration
powers in UK detention centres alone. Around the world immigrants are routinely detained …

Brangan (2013) Brangan, L.(2013). A framework for comparative research on supervision?
Offender Supervision in Europe, blog-site. Retrieved from http://www. offendersupervision …

This article presents findings from an ethnographic study of prisoner reentry programming in
a large Midwestern city to better understand the strategies reentry organizations employ to …

As penal power has been transformed in recent years, so too have relationships between
prisoners and staff. This article discusses how these relationships are forged by the terms of …

Actuarial risk assessments are frequently touted as a neutral way to counteract implicit bias
and increase the fairness of decisions made at almost every juncture of the criminal justice …

Meanings of risk in criminal justice assessment continue to evolve, making it critical to
understand how particular compositions of risk are mediated, resisted and re-configured by …