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...a well-informed and up-to-date account...an encouraging book for everyone concerned with the human issues within the criminal justice system. - Professional Social Work Williams has produced a stimulating, informative book with a broad view of the use of counselling skills within the richly described criminal justice context. - British Journal of Social Work ...an excellent overview of the constraints and rewards, the possibilities and limitations, of counselling within organizations that are generated by offending and offenders...for both professionals and volunteers, in probation, prisons, police, psychiatry, victim support and rape crisis this is an extremely useful and encouraging book. It is clearly and succinctly written, well laid out and informative. - Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

"...a well-informed and up-to-date account...an encouraging book for everyone concerned with the human issues within the criminal justice system." - Professional Social Work "Williams has produced a stimulating, informative book with a broad view of the use of counselling skills within the richly described criminal justice context." - British Journal of Social Work "...an excellent overview of the constraints and rewards, the possibilities and limitations, of counselling within organizations that are generated by offending and offenders...for both professionals and volunteers, in probation, prisons, police, psychiatry, victim support and rape crisis this is an extremely useful and encouraging book. It is clearly and succinctly written, well laid out and informative." - Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

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Brian Williams is a lecturer in the Department of Applied Social Studies at the University of Keele. His previous research and publications have concerned probation work, prisons and the victims of crime. He worked as a probation officer and as a community worker after training in social work. He has been involved in professional education since 1986, but has returned to probation practice twice during that time.

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