Probation: Key Readings presents a comprehensive selection of
key readings in community penalties. It is divided into six
sections, each with a detailed introduction from the editors.
Section one showcases central policy perspectives on the role,
tasks and significance of the probation service since its inception
in 1907, demonstrating the key shifts in political opinion that
have taken place. Section two considers the history and development
of probation and other community penalties, including accounts of
the emergence and origins of such penalties. Section three looks
more theoretically at these developments, illustrating the extent
of professional and academic debate about the purpose of probation
in a changing criminal justice climate through the models of
practice that have been proposed and elaborated at different times
in the history of the service. Section four examines practice,
including some of the key programmes that have been developed such
as day centres, drug programmes, intensive supervision projects,
together with innovative experiments in community engagement. It
covers various techniques and approaches to working with offenders,
such as casework, groupwork and partnership working. The fifth
section includes various articles on the theme of diversity, a
longstanding concern of probation staff. Finally, section six looks
at the arguments around effectiveness, including how it is measured
and the Nothing Works/What Works debate.
Probation: Key Readings will be essential reading for
practitioners, trainees and students of probation.
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