基本説明
Since 1997 the probation service, an integral component of criminal justice for over 100 years, has been subject to a politically-driven process of modernisation and cultural transformation. The book explains the context and background to today's probation service.
Full Description
Since 1997 the probation service, an integral component of criminal justice for over 100 years, has been subject to a politically-driven process of modernisation and cultural transformation. This innovative book explores this probation modernisation by using social theories associated with Durkheim, Weber, Marx and Foucault. The book combines this theoretical analysis with empirical research from interviews, which highlights challenges to, as well as support of, the politics of modernisation. This research is unique in providing insights into what representatives of other organisations think about probation - from the outside looking in.This text will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of probation, criminology, criminal and social justice and allied disciplines.
Contents
Contentsbecome of probation?: Bodies of social theory: the big guys; Religious, humanitarian and personalist impulses: the good guys; Social theory and excavating probation; Part two: Critique and challenge: what should probation be?: Views of probation and NOMS practitioners; Views of solicitors, clerks, magistrates, barristers, judges: empirical research findings; Conclusion.
