Emotional Literacy in Criminal Justice: Professional Practice with Offenders

by Charlotte Knight

Book Overview

Emotions remain largely invisible in the management of criminal justice practice. This book seeks to uncover some of the underground emotional work of practitioners and make visible the impact of both positive and negative emotions, which play a crucial role in practitioner-offender relationships.
Exploring how practitioners understand, regulate and work with emotion, Knight argues that the 'soft skills' of emotion are more likely to achieve motivation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137273194
• ISBN13: 9781137273192
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"