Reimagining Probation Practice

Re-forming Rehabilitation in an Age of Penal Excess

Lol Burke, Nicola Carr, Emma Cluley, Steve Collett, Fergus McNeill, Lol Burke, Nicola Carr, Emma Cluley, Steve Collett, Fergus McNeill

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9780367775995
• eBook ISBN: 9781000647914
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book provides a comprehensive and positive reimagining of probation practice in England and Wales across all the key settings in which work with people subject to supervision takes place. Bringing together chapters co-authored by academics and practitioners, it offers an overall conceptualisation of the rehabilitative endeavour within the realities of a probation service recently unified after the acknowledged failure of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms.

Reimagining Probation Practice covers the main themes and job functions of probation practice, from court work to individual and group interventions, to resettlement and public protection, to partnerships, to education and training. Each chapter includes a brief critical history of the area of practice, the current policy context, the applicability of different forms of rehabilitation (personal, legal/judicial, social and moral) to this area of practice, an overview of current good practice and areas in need of development. The book argues that the principles of parsimony, proportionality and productiveness should be applied to the criminal justice system in its work to rehabilitate individuals.

This book is essential reading for practitioners and all those engaged in probation training, as well as policy makers, leaders, managers and those interested in social and criminal justice.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Endorsements
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• About the contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of abbreviations
• 1 Introduction: reforming, reimagining and moving forward: for what purpose?
• 2 Court work and assessment: laying the foundations for effective probation practice
• 3 Individual interventions: reimagining the one-to-one interaction at the heart of probation practice
• 4 Group interventions: reimagining groupwork by embedding personal, judicial, moral and social rehabilitation into practice
• 5 Community service and rehabilitation: untapped potential
• 6 Resettlement: a people-first approach to community (re) integration
• 7 Public protection: examining the impact of strengthened public protection policy on probation practice
• 8 Reimagining partnerships: a forensic democratic therapeutic community model
• 9 Approved premises: futures of control in the community
• 10 Education and training: delivering the four forms of rehabilitation: training and developing probation practitioners
• 11 Inspection work: reimagining probation practice indirectly: how the work of the Inspectorate can support a reimagined rehabilitation
• 12 From electronic monitoring to artificial intelligence: technopopulism and the future of probation services
• 13 Conclusion: Reforming and reimagining: beyond the realities of contemporary probation practice
• Index