Frankl's classic memoir and introduction to logotherapy is one of the most important books you can read, whether you work in criminal justice, counselling, or simply want to understand how people endure. A demanding, hopeful, and genuinely essential read.

I picked this up because the title made me laugh. I kept reading because it made me think. Baxter spent twenty-five years in probation before the service was privatised, and the book is her account of that career. It is warm, honest, and at times quietly devastating in the way that only someone who has actually done the job can be. The cases stay with you. Steve, a convicted murderer whose great passion turned out to be cleaning, builds himself a marmite-based distillery in h

Jonathan Hussey opens Imperfect with the letter accepting him onto probation training, received days after he sat in a police cell. A former nightclub doorman who by his own admission could barely navigate his own life is handed the job of helping others navigate theirs. That irony runs through everything that follows. This is not a memoir by someone who had it figured out. It is a memoir by someone who did the work anyway and learned it on the people in front of him. Those p

A practical guide to working with offenders that covers everything training doesn't.