Forensic Social Work: Supporting Desistance - Paperback

by Jacqueline Bosker (Editor), Anneke Menger (Editor), Vivienne de Vogel (Editor)

Providing an overview of the knowledge and methods required by professionals working in a mandated setting with adults who have committed offences, Forensic Social Work presents evidence-based knowledge in an accessible way that can be directly translated to application in daily practice.

Author Biography

Jacqueline Bosker is Professor within the research group Working with Mandated Clients and Lecturer in the Forensic Social Professional master's degree programme at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. She is also a member of the Conditional Release Advisory Committee and the editor of PROCES, the national journal for penal law.

Anneke Menger is Professor Emeritus of the Working with Mandated Clients Research Group at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. In that role, she initiated and led the development of a practice-based research programme with and for forensic social professionals and a programme for bachelor's and master's degree in higher professional education.

Vivienne de Vogel is Professor of Forensic Mental Health Care at Maastricht University and within the research group Working With Mandated Clients at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. She also works as a researcher at the Van der Hoeven Kliniek, a forensic psychiatric centre in Utrecht and as Scientific Advisor of the Dutch Advisory Board on Review of Leave.