Dealing with Double Disadvantage

Dealing with Double Disadvantage Denise Jones and Diana Le Clair
There is an increasing focus on education, training for employment, and educational guidance as a means of rehabilitating offenders. Indeed the Home Office has described this work as the "single most important intervention" in changing offending behaviour. The authors address the rationale and the practice of this approach. They trace the relationship between offending and social and educational disadvantage, the educational needs of different groups of offenders, and suggests a coherent approach to provision rooted in a process of educational guidance. The book is of relevance to all who are concerned with the sentencing and rehabilitation of offenders, judges and magistrates, probation officers, prison education staff , careers and educational guidance personnel, basic education tutors, college staffs, employers, and education, training and employment personnel working with offenders.
The book considers: the rehabilitatative role of education the educational needs of offenders the links between offending and educational and social disadvantage offence related factors which influence educational work educational processes from initial guidance to achieving positive outcomes the policy context which ensures good practice in education, training for employment and guidance
The book is written by two authors working within the probation service who have wide experience of education, guidance and basic skills practice.

Dealing with Double Disadvantage
Denise Jones and Diana Le Clair

There is an increasing focus on education, training for employment, and educational guidance as a means of rehabilitating offenders. Indeed the Home Office has described this work as the "single most important intervention" in changing offending behaviour.

The authors address the rationale and the practice of this approach. They trace the relationship between offending and social and educational disadvantage, the educational needs of different groups of offenders, and suggests a coherent approach to provision rooted in a process of educational guidance.

The book is of relevance to all who are concerned with the sentencing and rehabilitation of offenders, judges and magistrates, probation officers, prison education staff , careers and educational guidance personnel, basic education tutors, college staffs, employers, and education, training and employment personnel working with offenders.

The book considers:

the rehabilitatative role of education
the educational needs of offenders
the links between offending and educational and social disadvantage
offence related factors which influence educational work
educational processes from initial guidance to achieving positive outcomes
the policy context which ensures good practice in education, training for employment and guidance

The book is written by two authors working within the probation service who have wide experience of education, guidance and basic skills practice.

Dealing with Double Disadvantage	Learning Partners (1998)
ISBN 1 899692 03 7	210pp, perfect bound £19.95