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Articles on People from Ogle County, Illinois, Including : Albert Spalding, John Deere, Akiane Kramarik, W. H. L. Wallace, Ruth Hanna Mccormick, Sean C
Articles on People from Ogle County, Illinois, Including : Albert Spalding, John Deere, Akiane Kramarik, W. H. L. Wallace, Ruth Hanna Mccormick, Sean C

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Bringing Allis Home Growing Up with an Allis-Chalmers WC in the Family
Bringing Allis Home Growing Up with an Allis-Chalmers WC in the Family

The first part of Bringing Allis Home provides nearly 30 episodes involving work on a typical mid-American farm in the 1940s and 50s with a much-loved family friend, an Allis-Chalmers WC. The second part contains various episodes in recent times that involve the young boy who is telling the stories in the first part. The young boy is now retired and attempts to take a similar tractor back to his home farm for one more tractor ride across the fields there. The return trip turned out not to be as easily done as he had thought.

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Coloring Book Farm Activity and Coloring Book 45 Funny for Kids Printable Well, Drone, Wheat, Scarecrow, Sickle, Vegetables, Tractor, Well Picture Quiz Words and Coloring Book
Coloring Book Farm Activity and Coloring Book 45 Funny for Kids Printable Well, Drone, Wheat, Scarecrow, Sickle, Vegetables, Tractor, Well Picture Quiz Words and Coloring Book

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Coloring Coloring Book Farm Activity and Coloring Book 45 Coloring for Teenage Girls Farmhouse, Smartfarm, Fertilizer, Sprout, Elephant, Kitchen, Tractor, Humidity Picture Quiz Words and Coloring Book
Coloring Coloring Book Farm Activity and Coloring Book 45 Coloring for Teenage Girls Farmhouse, Smartfarm, Fertilizer, Sprout, Elephant, Kitchen, Tractor, Humidity Picture Quiz Words and Coloring Book

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Country Ways and Country Days From Windvanes and Tractors to Auctions and Outhouses... Remembering Rural Life
Country Ways and Country Days From Windvanes and Tractors to Auctions and Outhouses... Remembering Rural Life

Outhouses. Weather vanes. Draft horses. Threshing machines. Barbed wire fences. Rural mail carriers. Gristmills. Barbershops. One-room country schools. Such objects of our vanishing rural past are today’s reminders of our country ways and country days: early home life in the country, work on the farm, how rural people kept in touch, the importance of community, and how farm folks relaxed and had fun. In ""Country Ways and Country Days"", you’ll go back in time and learn a bit about each item’s special role and its importance in country life. Noted storyteller Jerry Apps presents short essays on farming life and memories, drawn from his own experiences growing up on a small farm. These charming anecdotes are followed by brief histories of each item’s development and background. Apps’s reminiscences about the things that kept life humming on the farm and enriched the rural experience will leave you nostalgic for a time when working the land was its own reward. About the Author: Jerry Apps was born and raised on a farm in the days before electricity, central heating, or indoor plumbing. He is a former county extension agent and University of Wisconsin agriculture professor. He is the author of several other farm nostalgia and regional titles, including ""Every Farm Tells a Story"", ""Country Wisdom,"" ""Humor from the Country,"" and ""When Chores Were Done.""

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Deer Creek The Murders of William H. Gibson and John S. Frazer
Deer Creek The Murders of William H. Gibson and John S. Frazer

In 1890 two Kansas cattlemen were murdered in Elk and Chautauqua Counties. William H. Gibson and John S. Frazer were killed after Tick Fever decimated herds, which was brought to Kansas with their Texas Longhorns. Gibson was poisoned in a hotel room while Frazer was brutally stabbed on the prairie. The crime remains unsolved. The author has spent years studying newspapers and legal documents to chronicle events occurring before and after the homicides. The most comprehensive account available.

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Dirt to Soil One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture
Dirt to Soil One Family’s Journey into Regenerative Agriculture

<b>“A regenerative no-till pioneer.”—NBC News<br></b><br><b><i>“</i>We need to reintegrate livestock and crops on our farms and ranches, and Gabe Brown shows us how to do it well.”—Temple Grandin, author of <i>Animals in Translation</i></b><br><b><br>“<i>Dirt to Soil</i> is the [regenerative farming] movements’s holy text.”—<i>The Observer</i></b><br><br>Gabe Brown didn’t set out to change the world when he first started working alongside his father-in-law on the family farm in North Dakota. But as a series of weather-related crop disasters put Brown and his wife, Shelly, in desperate financial straits, they started making bold changes to their farm. Brown—in an effort to simply survive—began experimenting with new practices he’d learned about from reading and talking with innovative researchers and ranchers. As he and his family struggled to keep the farm viable, they found themselves on an amazing journey into a new type of farming: regenerative agriculture.<br><br>Brown dropped the use of most of the herbicides, insecticides, and synthetic fertilizers that are a standard part of conventional agriculture. He switched to no-till planting, started planting diverse cover crops mixes, and changed his grazing practices. In so doing Brown transformed a degraded farm ecosystem into one full of life—starting with the soil and working his way up, one plant and one animal at a time.<br><br>In <i>Dirt to Soil</i> Gabe Brown tells the story of that amazing journey and offers a wealth of innovative solutions to restoring the soil by laying out and explaining his “five principles of soil health,” which are:<br><br><br><br><ul><li>Limited Disturbance</li><li>Armor</li><li>Diversity</li><li>Living Roots</li><li>Integrated Animals</li></ul><br>The Brown’s Ranch model, developed over twenty years of experimentation and refinement, focuses on regenerating resources by continuously enhancing the living biology in the soil. Using regenerative agricultural principles, Brown’s Ranch has grown several inches of new topsoil in only twenty years! The 5,000-acre ranch profitably produces a wide variety of cash crops and cover crops as well as grass-finished beef and lamb, pastured laying hens, broilers, and pastured pork, all marketed directly to consumers.<br><br>The key is how we think, Brown says. In the industrial agricultural model, all thoughts are focused on killing things. But that mindset was also killing diversity, soil, and profit, Brown realized. Now he channels his creative thinking toward how he can get more <i>life</i> on the land—more plants, animals, and beneficial insects. “The greatest roadblock to solving a problem,” Brown says, “is the human mind.”<br><b><br>See Gabe Brown―author and farmer―in the award-winning documentaries <i>Kiss the Ground </i>and <i>Common Ground</i>!</b>

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Farm Tractors
Farm Tractors

With trucks, trains, tractors, and more, the books in this new series introduce young readers to powerful, moving machines through photographs that correspond directly to the questions and sentences on each page. This series is sure to be a hit with your reluctant readers!

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Farm Tractors The Case Guide to Tractor Selection, Operation, Economics and Servicing
Farm Tractors The Case Guide to Tractor Selection, Operation, Economics and Servicing

Despite the fact that the farmer spends more on machinery than anything else except the land and despite the fact that he spends more on tractors than on any other machine, there are few books on the choice and operation of tractors to fit modern farming conditions. Most of this book is about farming and how to fit tractors to the individual situation. Those sections are completely unbiased and Case are happy to sponsor such a book in the wider interests of sensible, more productive and safer use of tractors and machinery. Where the Company's views are expressed it is clearly stated as such. This is mainly in the area of design detail and then only for the sake of being concise and brief. The first part of the book is concerned with relating the needs of the individual farm to specific details of tractor performance. Later chapters deal with policy on size, numbers and replacement. This section is a major development specifically about tractors. It is developed from the author's work Farm Mechanisationfor Prl!fitwhich deals with machinery in the wider sense. Later chapters of this book are related to profes sionalism in operation, maintenance and care.

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Fields of Farmers Interning, Mentoring, Partnering, Germinating
Fields of Farmers Interning, Mentoring, Partnering, Germinating

America’s average farmer is sixty years old. When young people can’t get in, old people can’t get out. Approaching a watershed moment, our culture desperately needs a generational transfer of millions of farm acres facing abandonment, development, or amalgamation into ever-larger holdings. Based on his decades of experience with interns and multigenerational partnerships at Polyface Farm, farmer and author Joel Salatin digs deep into the problems and solutions surrounding this land- and knowledge-transfer crisis. This book empowers aspiring young farmers, midlife farmers, and nonfarming landlords to build regenerative, profitable agricultural enterprises.

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Folks, This Ain't Normal A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World
Folks, This Ain't Normal A Farmer's Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

From farmer Joel Salatin's point of view, life in the 21st century just ain't normal. In FOLKS, THIS AIN'T NORMAL, he discusses how far removed we are from the simple, sustainable joy that comes from living close to the land and the people we love. Salatin has many thoughts on what normal is and shares practical and philosophical ideas for changing our lives in small ways that have big impact.<br><br>Salatin, hailed by the <i>New York Times</i> as "Virginia's most multifaceted agrarian since Thomas Jefferson [and] the high priest of the pasture" and profiled in the Academy Award nominated documentary <i>Food, Inc.</i> and the bestselling book <i>The Omnivore's Dilemma</i>, understands what food should be: Wholesome, seasonal, raised naturally, procured locally, prepared lovingly, and eaten with a profound reverence for the circle of life. And his message doesn't stop there. From child-rearing, to creating quality family time, to respecting the environment, Salatin writes with a wicked sense of humor and true storyteller's knack for the revealing anecdote. <br><br>Salatin's crucial message and distinctive voice--practical, provocative, scientific, and down-home philosophical in equal measure--make FOLKS, THIS AIN'T NORMAL a must-read book.

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Gardens of Earthly Delight The History of Deer Parks
Gardens of Earthly Delight The History of Deer Parks

This is a highly original, profusely illustrated, and well researched account of deer parks. With humility and respect Fletcher touches on errors commonly made by archaeologists and historians, taking issue with long held theories while drawing on his lifetime working with deer to formulate plausible explanations as to, for example, why they were not domesticated until the 20th century, how parks evolved from haga and elricks, why deer parks were created throughout Eurasia, why fallow so rapidly ousted red deer from medieval British parks, and much more. <br>He ranges from meat sharing amongst chimpanzees to the symbolism of venison as the elite product of hunting, ensconced within seven centuries of the English Royal Warrant, through the 300 year long prohibition on its sale within England and the continuing illegality of selling hunted venison within the USA, the aristocratic pursuit of park breaking, and the imposition of the Black Act. He stresses the cross-cultural importance of rulers being seen to hunt, compares ancient Chinese parks, the colossal Asian ring hunts, and the water hunts of Germany as expressions of man's urge to contain deer. <br>Within Britain, which has for a thousand years held more deer parks than any other part of the world, he describes how deer were fed, transported, enclosed, captured, castrated and housed, and how they were hunted in the confines of parks. The recent theory as to the use of trenches for handling deer in medieval Scotland is explored. The international symbolism of white deer, collared deer and enclosed deer is discussed. Recently, parks provided deer for English carted hunts and Scottish sporting estates; now we recognise their ecological and recreational value. We learn how parklands may be our spiritual home - the environment in which we are most content - and that parks have always been, in a fashion, designed landscapes.

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Homestead Tsunami Good for Country, Critters, and Kids
Homestead Tsunami Good for Country, Critters, and Kids

<b>From his 66-year farm, food, and family experience, Joel Salatin explains why thousands of Americans are selling their urban homes, cashing out retirement funds, and heading to the country. The exodus is both a goodbye to one life and an embrace of another.</b><br><br>When society breaks down, people head away from the city. For food security, health, and satisfaction, homesteads offer a haven of hope and help when much seems hopeless and helpless.<br><br>While fear motivates people to change, only faith sustains. This book offers multiple reasons for modern homestead living. Some are:<br>• Secure, stable, safe food.<br>• Healthy, happy children.<br>• Superior immune function.<br>• Community and connections.<br>• Meaningful work.<br>• Creation stewardship immersion.<br><br>In his 16th book, Salatin offers the homestead why to those contemplating the jump, those trying to dissuade their friends from jumping, and those who regret having jumped. Despite its sweat and disappointments, homesteading offers incalculable benefits that feed the soul, soil, and spirit.<br><br><i>Homestead Tsunami</i> digs deep into the ethos of today’s best pension plan: living and learning proximate to people who know how to build things, repair, things and grow things. A better life awaits.

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John Deere Big Building Site
John Deere Big Building Site

Watch live machines in action and share a building adventure story all at the same time . . . <p>Broom, Chug, Shovel and Dump . . . share the adventure - follow live-action tractors and trucks hard at work, and discover all about the real world of construction. At the same time you and your child can read the exciting adventure appearing alongside.</p> <p>Join Danny Dozer, Johnny Tractor and his powerful machine friends as they get themselves into plenty of sticky situations building a school playground, with children they've invited to help.</p> <p>Touch and feel pieces, lift the flaps, and pull-tabs turn this into a tactile experience and encourage plenty of involvement - hands on fun for busy little builders!</p>

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Lame Deer, Sioux Medicine Man
Lame Deer, Sioux Medicine Man

By John Fire Lame Deer And Richard Erdoes.

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Man with Farm Seeks Woman with Tractor The Best and Worst Personal Ads of All Time
Man with Farm Seeks Woman with Tractor The Best and Worst Personal Ads of All Time

We've all been there, whether searching the personals for a romantic connection or posting an ad in hopes of luring in a new friend. A great source of entertainment, many people skim through the personals section for a quick laugh, never questioning its origin or its interesting history. Personal ads began popping up sporadically in the eighteenth century and became common by the end of the nineteenth. Whole publications devoted to romantic and marriage-minded classifieds flourished around the turn of the last century. In the last half of the twentieth century, personal ads exploded in myriad publications from coy gay ads of the 1950s to colorful ads in the alternative presses of the 1970s. Today, more and more people are paying for a chance at love. From the best and the worst, the hopeful and the hopeless, the bitter and the sweet, the romantic and the lustful—never before has a collection like this been assembled from so many decades past. By including hundreds of funny and surprising personal ads from historical newspapers as well as modern Web sites, <i>Man with Farm</i> will entertain and inform.

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Privatising Probation
Privatising Probation

Over the past 20 years, there have been many changes to probation governance in England and Wales aimed at controlling it from central government. However, the changes introduced under the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) agenda, introduced in 2013, are unprecedented: the service has been divided and part-privatised and no longer exists as a unified public body. This topical book looks at the attitudes of probation practitioners and managers to the philosophy, values, and practicalities of TR. Based on a unique online survey of over 1300 respondents which found that they were unequivocally opposed to its broad aims and objectives, it provides unique insights into the values, attitudes and beliefs of probation staff and their delivery of services. Including broader discussion of the privatisation/marketisation debate, the context of privatisation of criminal justice services and questions of legitimacy and governance, this is essential reading for everyone interested in the future of the service.

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Privatising Probation Is Transforming Rehabilitation the End of the Probation Ideal?
Privatising Probation Is Transforming Rehabilitation the End of the Probation Ideal?

<p>Over the past 20 years, there have been many changes to probation governance in England and Wales aimed at controlling it from central government. However, the changes introduced under the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) agenda, introduced in 2013, are unprecedented: the service has been divided and part-privatised and no longer exists as a unified public body. </p><p> This topical book looks at the attitudes of probation practitioners and managers to the philosophy, values, and practicalities of TR. Based on a unique online survey of over 1300 respondents which found that they were unequivocally opposed to its broad aims and objectives, it provides unique insights into the values, attitudes and beliefs of probation staff and their delivery of services.</p><p> Including broader discussion of the privatisation/marketisation debate, the context of privatisation of criminal justice services and questions of legitimacy and governance, this is essential reading for everyone interested in the future of the service.</p>

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Probation Practice and the New Penology Practitioner Reflections
Probation Practice and the New Penology Practitioner Reflections

The criminal justice system has been in a state of flux in recent decades, accompanied by growing levels of insecurity and intolerance of crime and offenders among the general population. Along with government policy and practice, these developments are seen as contributing to an increasingly punitive system that imprisons more than ever before and seeks to punish and manage offenders in the community, rather than to attempt their rehabilitation. For these reasons, along with a loss of faith in rehabilitation, the probation service is now described by many as having become a law enforcement agency, charged by government with the assessment and management of risk, the protection of the public and the management and punishment of offenders, rather than their transformation into pro-social citizens. This book explores the extent to which practitioners within the National Probation Service for England and Wales and the National Offender Management Service ascribe to the values, attitudes and beliefs associated with these macro and mezzo level changes and how much their practice has changed accordingly. By viewing examples of 'real' practice through the lens of the modernisation of public services, managerialism and theories of organisation change, the book considers how 'real' practice is likely to emerge as something unpredictable and perhaps different from the intentions of both government/management and practitioners.

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Probation Practice and the New Penology Practitioner Reflections
Probation Practice and the New Penology Practitioner Reflections

The criminal justice system has been in a state of flux in recent decades, accompanied by growing levels of insecurity and intolerance of crime and offenders among the general population. Along with government policy and practice, these developments are seen as contributing to an increasingly punitive system that imprisons more than ever before and seeks to punish and manage offenders in the community, rather than to attempt their rehabilitation. For these reasons, along with a loss of faith in rehabilitation, the probation service is now described by many as having become a law enforcement agency, charged by government with the assessment and management of risk, the protection of the public and the management and punishment of offenders, rather than their transformation into pro-social citizens. This book explores the extent to which practitioners within the National Probation Service for England and Wales and the National Offender Management Service ascribe to the values, attitudes and beliefs associated with these macro and mezzo level changes and how much their practice has changed accordingly. By viewing examples of 'real' practice through the lens of the modernisation of public services, managerialism and theories of organisation change, the book considers how 'real' practice is likely to emerge as something unpredictable and perhaps different from the intentions of both government/management and practitioners.

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Probation Practice and the New Penology Practitioner Reflections
Probation Practice and the New Penology Practitioner Reflections

The criminal justice system has been in a state of flux in recent decades, accompanied by growing levels of insecurity and intolerance of crime and offenders among the general population. Along with government policy and practice, these developments are seen as contributing to an increasingly punitive system that imprisons more than ever before and seeks to punish and manage offenders in the community, rather than to attempt their rehabilitation. For these reasons, along with a loss of faith in rehabilitation, the probation service is now described by many as having become a law enforcement agency, charged by government with the assessment and management of risk, the protection of the public and the management and punishment of offenders, rather than their transformation into pro-social citizens. This book explores the extent to which practitioners within the National Probation Service for England and Wales and the National Offender Management Service ascribe to the values, attitudes and beliefs associated with these macro and mezzo level changes and how much their practice has changed accordingly. By viewing examples of 'real' practice through the lens of the modernisation of public services, managerialism and theories of organisation change, the book considers how 'real' practice is likely to emerge as something unpredictable and perhaps different from the intentions of both government/management and practitioners.

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Sex Offenders : Punish, Help, Change Or Control?
Sex Offenders : Punish, Help, Change Or Control?

Sex Offending, And In Particular Child Sex Offending, Is A Complex Area For Policy Makers, Theorist And Practitioners. This Book Make An Holistic Contribution To This Controversial Field Of Study By Setting The Rise And Prominence Of Work With Child Sex Offenders In Its Legal And Practice Context And Offers A Sense Of Direction And Landscape Form Which To Take Forward A Critical Perspective On And Exploration Of Current And Proposed Policy And Practice Developments. Bringing Together Academic, Practise And Policy Experts, The Book Argues That A Clear But Complex Theoretical And Policy Approach Is Required If The Risk Of Re- Offending And Further Victimisation Is To Be Reduced.-- Provided By Publisher.,sex Offending, And In Particular Child Sex Offending, Is A Complex Area For Policy Makers, Theorists And Practitioners. A Focus On Punishment Has Reinforced Sex Offending As A Problem That Is Essentially 'other' To Society And Discourages Engagement With The Real Scale And Scope Of Sexual Offending In The Uk. This Book Looks At The Growth Of Work With Sex Offenders, Questioning Assumptions About The Range And Types Of Such Offenders And What Effective Responses To These Might Be. Divided Into Four Sections, This Book Sets Out The Growth Of A Broad Legislative Context And The Emergence Of Child Sexual Offenders In Criminal Justice Policy And Practice. It Goes On To Consider A Range Of Offences And Victim Typologies Arguing That Work With Offenders And Victims Is Complex And Can Provide A Rich Source Of Theoretical And Practical Knowledge That Should Be Utilised More Fully By Both Policy Makers And Practitioners. It Includes Work On Female Sex Offenders, Electronic Monitoring And Animal Abuse As Well As Exploring Interventions With Sex Offenders In Three Different Contexts; Prisons, Communities And Hostels. Bringing Together Academic, Practise And Policy Experts, The Book Argues That A Clear But Complex Theoretical And Policy Approach Is Required If The Risk Of Re- Offending And Further Victimisation Is To Be Reduced. Ultimately, This Book Questions Whether It Makes Sense To Locate Responsibility For Responding To Sexual Offending Solely Within The Criminal Justice Domain-- Provided By Publisher.

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Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control? Theory, Policy and Practice Explored
Sex Offenders: Punish, Help, Change or Control? Theory, Policy and Practice Explored

<p>Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners. A focus on punishment has reinforced sex offending as a problem that is essentially ‘other’ to society and discourages engagement with the real scale and scope of sexual offending in the UK. This book looks at the growth of work with sex offenders, questioning assumptions about the range and types of such offenders and what effective responses to these might be. </p> <p>Divided into four sections, this book sets out the growth of a broad legislative context and the emergence of child sexual offenders in criminal justice policy and practice. It goes on to consider a range of offences and victim typologies arguing that work with offenders and victims is complex and can provide a rich source of theoretical and practical knowledge that should be utilised more fully by both policy makers and practitioners. It includes work on female sex offenders, electronic monitoring and animal abuse as well as exploring interventions with sex offenders in three different contexts; prisons, communities and hostels.</p> <p>Bringing together academic, practice and policy experts, the book argues that a clear but complex theoretical and policy approach is required if the risk of re- offending and further victimisation is to be reduced. Ultimately, this book questions whether it makes sense to locate responsibility for responding to sexual offending solely within the criminal justice domain.</p>

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Sex Offenders Punish, Help, Change Or Control? : Theory, Policy and Practice Explored
Sex Offenders Punish, Help, Change Or Control? : Theory, Policy and Practice Explored

<p>Sex offending, and in particular child sex offending, is a complex area for policy makers, theorists and practitioners. A focus on punishment has reinforced sex offending as a problem that is essentially 'other' to society and discourages engagement with the real scale and scope of sexual offending in the UK. This book looks at the growth of work with sex offenders, questioning assumptions about the range and types of such offenders and what effective responses to these might be.</p> <p>Divided into four sections, this book sets out the growth of a broad legislative context and the emergence of child sexual offenders in criminal justice policy and practice. It goes on to consider a range of offences and victim typologies arguing that work with offenders and victims is complex and can provide a rich source of theoretical and practical knowledge that should be utilised more fully by both policy makers and practitioners. It includes work on female sex offenders, electronic monitoring and animal abuse as well as exploring interventions with sex offenders in three different contexts; prisons, communities and hostels.</p> <p>Bringing together academic, practice and policy experts, the book argues that a clear but complex theoretical and policy approach is required if the risk of re- offending and further victimisation is to be reduced. Ultimately, this book questions whether it makes sense to locate responsibility for responding to sexual offending solely within the criminal justice domain.</p>

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