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Review R U LISTENIN’? HELPING DEFIANT MEN TO RECOGNIZE THEIR TRUE POTENTIAL Bianchini T London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008 160pp £16.99 ISBN: 978 1 84310 616 6 This book states that it is aimed at ‘professionals Generally the book provides a good insight into working with men who are challenging the boundaries of prison life and the issue faced by those in such society or any man who feels frustrated by his life’. It sets situations, yet it fails to provide the resource one out to provide those in the field with a range of would have expected for professionals whose daily exercises that can be used with their client groups as work involves work with young men; much of which is a means of enabling them to reflect on their ‘personal part of the preventative agenda. and emotional behaviour’. Its claim to provide exercises that are imaginative The book is made up of 15 chapters and uses life do not stand up and certainly would not work with in prison as the scene for gaining an insight into the many young people with challenging behaviours as challenging behaviours of men. It utilises this they would be unable to relate to the scenarios. The information to develop case studies which can then be author could have developed the hands-on solutions translated into exercises that can be used by those so that those outside of the prison environment could working with challenging young men. These exercises have benefited from them. provide a range of topics for discussion. The book was primarily a disappointment when it The practical exercises and suggested tools are came to providing what it states as ‘positive guidance contained in the last few chapters of the book, after for men and an essential tool for professionals working the reader has gained a huge amount of information with young offenders and men with challenging related to prison life. While the exercises may be behaviour’. This could possibly be related to the fact pertinent to those in prison, what the writer has failed that the book endeavored to set the scene with far to do is provide a holistic approach to dealing with too many chapters and left itself short in the managing challenging behaviour. It does not take into the behaviours sections. consideration that many of the people reading the book will be working with young men outside of the Reviewed by Joan Bailey prison environment. Programme Manager, The Safer Luton Partnership 46 Safer Communities Volume 7 Issue 3 July 2008 © Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Ltd http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Safer Communities Emerald Publishing

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Bailey, Joan
Safer Communities , Volume 7 (3): 1 – Jul 1, 2008
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R U LISTENIN’? HELPING DEFIANT MEN TO RECOGNIZE THEIR TRUE POTENTIAL Bianchini T London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008 160pp £16.99 ISBN: 978 1 84310 616 6 This book states that it is aimed at ‘professionals Generally the book provides a good insight into working with men who are challenging the boundaries of prison life and the issue faced by those in such society or any man who feels frustrated by his life’. It sets situations, yet it fails to provide the resource one out to provide those in the field with a range of would have expected for professionals whose daily exercises that can be used with their client groups as work involves work with young men; much of which is a means of enabling them to reflect on their ‘personal part of the preventative agenda. and emotional behaviour’. Its claim to provide exercises that are imaginative The book is made up of 15 chapters and uses life do not stand up and certainly would not work with in prison as the scene for gaining an insight into the many young people with challenging behaviours as challenging behaviours of men. It utilises this they would be unable to relate to the scenarios. The information to develop case studies which can then be author could have developed the hands-on solutions translated into exercises that can be used by those so that those outside of the prison environment could working with challenging young men. These exercises have benefited from them. provide a range of topics for discussion. The book was primarily a disappointment when it The practical exercises and suggested tools are came to providing what it states as ‘positive guidance contained in the last few chapters of the book, after for men and an essential tool for professionals working the reader has gained a huge amount of information with young offenders and men with challenging related to prison life. While the exercises may be behaviour’. This could possibly be related to the fact pertinent to those in prison, what the writer has failed that the book endeavored to set the scene with far to do is provide a holistic approach to dealing with too many chapters and left itself short in the managing challenging behaviour. It does not take into the behaviours sections. consideration that many of the people reading the book will be working with young men outside of the Reviewed by Joan Bailey prison environment. Programme Manager, The Safer Luton Partnership 46 Safer Communities Volume 7 Issue 3 July 2008 © Pavilion Journals (Brighton) Ltd

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