This Handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date source of information and analysis about all aspects of the work of the Probation Service.
It takes full account of the many changes that the Probation Service has undergone over the last few years, and is currently undergoing as probation becomes part of the broader National Offender Management Service. Contributors to the book are drawn from leading academics and practitioners in the field, drawing upon the best expertise available. Running through the book is a concern with a range of key current issues such as addressing the diversity of offenders and creating effective links with other criminal justice agencies, and it includes perspectives from both probation service staff and from offenders and victims.
This book is an essential text for practitioners, trainees and students of probation and those studying it as part of a wider criminology or criminal justice course.
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| Preface |
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| Introduction |
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Part 1 The Story of Probation in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland |
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Humanising justice: the English Probation Service up to 1972 |
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Towards a correctional service |
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Probation, governance and accountability |
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The Probation Service as part of NOMS in England and Wales: fit for purpose? |
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Probation in Scotland: past, present and future |
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Probation, the state and community -- delivering probation services in Northern Ireland |
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Part 2 Probation Services: Impact, Prospects and Potential in Everyday Practice |
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Services before trial and sentence: achievement, decline and potential |
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Assessment, supervision and intervention: fundamental practice in probation |
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Sentencing, community penalties and the role of the Probation Service |
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Difference and diversity in probation |
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Prolific/persistent offenders and desistance |
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High-risk offenders and public protection |
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The resettlement of ex-prisoners |
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Part 3 What Works in Probation? |
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Effectiveness: who counts what? |
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Past, present and future sentences: what do we know about their effectiveness? |
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Probation values and human rights |
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Working for and with victims of crime |
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Partnerships in probation |
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Community penalties, sentencers, the media and public opinion |
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| Glossary |
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Loraine Gelsthorpe is Reader in Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Director of the MPhil Programme in Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge; she is also a Fellow of Pembroke College.
Rod Morgan is Professor Emeritus at the University of Bristol and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Until February 2007 he was Chairman of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales and prior to that, HM Chief Inspector of Probation for England and Wales.
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