Full Description
This book is a collection of essays by a unique group of authors about the political destruction of the probation service in England and Wales. All of them are probation officers turned academics, with a collective scholarly output that is both prodigious and distinguished. They address the history of probation, its underlying values and working methods, and the way it has been systematically dismantled by successive political administrations. The book offers essential reading for those interested in broadening their understanding of the probation service and its vital role in rehabilitation. In addition it makes a compelling case for the reinstatement of an evidence-based probation service as the primary criminal justice agency concerned with helping people who come before the courts to become contributing citizens. A lively and engrossing read, it is destined to be invaluable to policy makers, social science theorists and commentators, as well as scholars of criminology and the justice system, and all those who work in it.
Contents
Chapter 1. Women and Probation.-
Chapter 2. Where Did It All Go Wrong? .-
Chapter 3. Social Justice, Human Rights and the Values of Probation .-
Chapter 4. Values in Probation With People Who Commit Sex Crimes.-
Chapter 5. What Probation Has Been and What It Could Become.-
Chapter 6. Probation.-
Chapter 7. Bridging and Broking.-
Chapter 8. Probation, Privatisation, and Perceptions of Risk.-
Chapter 9. The Nature of Probation Practice.-
Chapter 10. The Rise of Risk in Probation Work.-
Chapter 11. Alarms & Excursions.-
Chapter 12. Effective Probation in England and Wales? .-
Chapter 13. Forty Years and Counting.-
Chapter 14. Probation.-
Chapter 15. A Future for Evidence-based Do-gooding? .-
Chapter 16. Probation Duty and the Re-moralisation of Criminal Justice .-
Chapter 17. Probation in the Genes?
