Crime and Social Policy provides an invaluableexamination of the relationship between social policy and crime. Itdraws on recent empirical research to offer important insights intothe impact of current social policy trends on the lives ofoffenders.* Provides an invaluable examination of the critical relationshipbetween social policy and crime management* Includes illuminating case studies on the impact of socialpolicies on offenders* Reviews current social policy trends and their influence oncrime causation, crime rates, and crime management* Discusses the role for social policy in promoting moreeffective reintegration of offenders into the community* Draws on recent empirical research ranging from youth crime,anti-social behaviour, 'problematic families', andsocial security fraud* The collection offers important insights into the impact ofcurrent social policy trends on the lives of offenders

List of Contributors viiIntroduction 1Hazel Kemshall1 An International Crime Decline: Lessons for Social WelfareCrime Policy? 5Paul Knepper2 Advise, Assist and Befriend: Can Probation Supervision SupportDesistance? 23Deirdre Healy3 The Relational Context of Desistance: Some Implications andOpportunities for Social Policy 41Beth Weaver4 'Regulating the Poor': Observations on the'Structural Coupling' of Welfare, Criminal Justice andthe Voluntary Sector in a 'Big Society' 59John J. Rodger5 What Prospects Youth Justice? Children in Trouble in the Ageof Austerity 77Joe Yates6 Bleak Times for Children? The Anti-social Behaviour Agenda andthe Criminalization of Social Policy 93Janet Jamieson7 Social Citizenship and Social Security Fraud in the UK andAustralia 111Gráinne McKeeverIndex 129