Probation and politics : academic reflections from former practitioners /: academic reflections from former practitioners. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Maurice Vanstone, Philip Priestley, editors.
• Other Names: Vanstone, Maurice; Priestley, Philip
• Contents: Probation and Politics; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Prospect: Probation Past, Present and Future; References; 2 Women and Probation -- Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead; Working as a Woman Probation Officer in Probation; The Changing Gendered Composition of Probation Staff ; Probation Practice and Women; Transforming Rehabilitation -- Recent Developments; Meeting Myself Coming Back; Concluding Thoughts; References; 3 Where Did It All Go Wrong? Probation Under New Labour and the Coalition; A Life on Probation. Reflections on Probation and New Labour: Modernisation, Managerialism and MarketsReflections on Probation and the Coalition Government: Austerity, 'Big Society' and Privatisation; Where Do We Go from Here?; References; 4 Social Justice, Human Rights and the Values of Probation; Becoming a Probation Officer; The Personal and the Political; Probation: Its Limits and Its Value; Processes Matter; Human Rights; Some Thoughts About the Future; References; 5 Values in Work with People Who Commit Sex Crimes; Motivations and Values; The Values of Probation Practice with Sex Offending. Issues Related to Mandated and Voluntary Participation in Treatment Programmes Epistemic Values in Working with Sex Offending; Constructing Respectful Probation Practice with People Convicted of Sex Offences; References; 6 Voices from Practice -- What Probation Has Been and What It Could Become; Reflections on 'Voices from Practice' and Policy Development -- the 1990s and the early 2000s; Post 2010 -- Towards the Present; From Here to Where? Reflections on the Future; References; 7 Probation -- Rights and New Agendas; Beginnings in Probation; Some Reflections; Towards Anti-discriminatory Practice. The Centrality of LanguageProbation, Learning Difficulties and Mental Disorder; Probation and Mental Disorder; Probation and the Risk Society; Violence and Abuse in the Workplace; Reflections -- From Rehabilitation to Privatisation; Two Probation Services; From Optimism to Risk-Based Pessimism; Deprofessionalisation; Individualisation and the Social Decontextualisation of Probation; Increased Bureaucratisation; Back to the Future; References; Internet References; 8 Bridging and Brokering -- Hope for the Future of Probation?; In and Against the State; Consequences?; New Labour; After 2010. Final ThoughtsReferences; 9 Probation, Privatisation and Perceptions of Risk; Introduction; Actuarialism; Deskilling; Privatisation; Probation and the Media; The Role of Academic Research; References; 10 The Nature of Probation Practice -- From Clinical to Punitive Managerialist Enterprise; My Probation Career; The Nature of Probation Practice; The Changing Landscape: From Punitive-Managerialist to Semi-Privatised Enterprise; References; 11 The Rise of Risk in Probation Work: Historical Reflections and Future Speculations; My Journey into Risk; Probation 'Discovers' Risk.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (414 pages)
• Subjects: 364; Criminology; Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- Government policy -- Great Britain; Probation -- Government policy -- Great Britain; Critical criminology; Crime -- Sociological aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; Crime -- Sociological aspects; Critical criminology; Probation -- Government policy; Social Science -- Criminology; Crime & criminology; Corrections; Punishment; Crime—Sociological aspects; Social Science -- Penology; Penology & punishment; Great Britain; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1137595574; 9781137595577
• Related ISBNs: 9781137595560; 1137595566
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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