ABSTRACT
How can we best help offenders desist from crime, as well as help victims heal? This book engages with this question by offering its readers a comprehensive review of positive criminology in theory, research and practice. Positive criminology is a concept – a perspective – that places emphasis on forces of integration and social inclusion that are experienced positively by target individual and groups, and may contribute to a reduction in negative emotions, desistance from crime and overcoming the traumatic experience of victimization. In essence, positive criminology holds a more holistic view, which acknowledges that thriving and disengagement from distress, addiction, mental illness, crime, deviance or victimization might be fostered more effectively by enhancing positive emotions and experiences, rather than focusing on reducing negative attributes.
Each chapter in this book is written by key scholars in the related fields of criminology, victimology and addiction and, thus, assembles varied and extensive approaches to rehabilitation and treatment. These approaches share in common a positive criminology view, thereby enriching our understanding of the concept and other strength-based approaches to dealing with offenders and victims.
This edited book elaborates on positive criminology core ideas and assumptions; discusses related theories and innovations; and presents various benefits that this perspective can promote in the field of rehabilitation. For this reason, this book will be essential reading for those engaged in the study of criminology, criminal justice and victimology and may also assist scholars and professionals to help offenders desist from crime and improve victims’ well-being.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|173 pages
Positive criminology in theory and practice
chapter 5|20 pages
Strengths-based restorative approaches to reentry
chapter 7|11 pages
Positive criminology and therapeutic jurisprudence
chapter 9|14 pages
Israel's Juvenile Probation Service from the perspective of positive criminology
chapter 10|12 pages
Applied positive criminology
chapter 11|22 pages
The Good Lives Model of offender rehabilitation
part II|59 pages
Positive criminology and addiction treatment
chapter 13|17 pages
Long-term recovery from addiction
chapter 14|14 pages
Recovery as a social phenomenon
chapter 16|13 pages
‘Pulling myself up by the bootstraps'
part III|104 pages
Positive victimology