Table of Contents

Introduction and Background
Part 1 - Setting the Scene
1: The Nature and Extent of Serious Further Offences
2: Back to Basics - Understanding Offending Behaviour
3: Risk, Dangerousness and Serious Further Offending
4: Working Together - MAPPA and NOMS
Part 2 - Inquiries Cultures: Themes and Issues
5: Inquiry Culture - Moving Forward or Process Compliance?
6: Failure and Blame - Learning Lessons from Elsewhere
7: Serious Further Offending - Types, Reviews and Research
8: SFO Inquiries - Opening Pandora's Box
9: Conclusion
References

About the Author

Dr Mike Nash is the Head of the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth and has worked as a Senior Probation Officer at Hampshire Probation Service. His main research interests are concerned with the response of the criminal justice system to the concept of 'dangerousness' in relation to the police and probation services. He is the author of the 2006 OUP title 'Public Protection and the Criminal Justice Process'. Dr Andrew Williams
is Course Leader in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Portsmouth.