Peter Raynor
Peter Raynor is a former probation officer and qualified social worker, now emeritus research professor in criminology and criminal justice at Swansea University, where he has worked since 1975.
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Evidence-Based Skills in Criminal Justice
International Research on Supporting Rehabilitation and Desistance
This book is the first to bring together international research on evidence-based skills and practices in probation and youth justice in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Wide-ranging in scope, it also covers effective approaches to working with ethnic minority service users, women and young people.
Getting out and staying out
Results of the prisoner Resettlement Pathfinders
By Anna Clancy, Kirsty Hudson, Mike Maguire, Richard Peake, Peter Raynor, Maurice Vanstone and Jocelyn Kynch
Short-term prisoners have exceptionally high reconviction rates. Growing recognition of this and of deficiencies in prison-probation coordination has accelerated 'resettlement' of ex-prisoners up the penal agenda. This report looks at the effectiveness of these strategies in detail through three case studies of 'Resettlement Pathfinders' projects.