Volunteers in the probation service: a comparison between Germany and Japan

2013 ◽  
pp. 112-128
Keyword(s):  
Probation Service

The causal attributions of substance use in clients’ change talk during motivational interviewing

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harri Sarpavaara
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Motivational Interviewing ◽  
Causal Attributions ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Substance Use Treatment ◽  
Substance Users ◽  
Change Talk ◽  
Probation Service ◽  
Indexical Sign

The objective of this study is to provide insights into substance users’ beliefs about the causes of substance use, in order to expand the current understanding of the significance of the client’s change-related talk during motivational interviewing (MI) sessions. In particular, it focuses on what kind of causes the substance-using clients attribute their substance use to in change talk during MI. The analyses are based on videotaped and transcribed data consisting of 98 MI sessions in the Finnish Probation Service. By applying Peirce’s semiotic theory of signs, this study investigates clients’ change talk utterances about causal attributions of substance use as an indexical sign. The results show that the clients attributed various causes to substance use, and that five main causes can be discerned: cultural factors, significant others, personal properties, working life, and lifestyle. The study displays that both sociocultural and psychological causes play an important role in substance users’ change talk. Thus, it is suggested that contextual factors should not be overlooked in MI and other substance use treatment.

Some Practical Implications for Policy and Practice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph Henham
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Working Relationship ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Community Based ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
National Regulation ◽  
Probation Service ◽  
Practical Implications

This chapter explains the practical consequences of what has been proposed. It begins by evaluating current models and suggested approaches for incorporating public opinion into sentencing, explaining how the proposed changes would differ. It then sets out some practical reforms to sentencing in England and Wales, including greater coordination between the national regulation of sentencing discretion through the Sentencing Council and regional or community-based sentencing practices. Regional branches of the Sentencing Council are also advocated. In addition to further practical reforms, a greater role for the Sentencing Council in the ethical surveillance of sentencing, the development of new procedural rules, and enhanced training for judges and magistrates are proposed. Finally, a closer working relationship between the Sentencing Council, the courts, the CPS, defence lawyers, and the Probation Service is advocated to develop guidance clarifying their role within the new sentencing framework.

scholarly journals Professionalism, Payment by Results and the Probation Service: A Qualitative Study of the Impact of Marketisation on Professional Autonomy

2021 ◽  
pp. 095001702110038
Author(s):  
Matt Tidmarsh
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Professional Autonomy ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Community Rehabilitation ◽  
Probation Office ◽  
Probation Service ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Privately Owned

This article utilises Foucauldian understandings of the sociology of the professions to explore how marketising reforms to probation services in England and Wales, and the implementation of a ‘Payment by Results’ (PbR) mechanism in particular, have impacted professional autonomy. Drawing on an ethnographic study of a probation office within a privately owned Community Rehabilitation Company, it argues that an inability to control the socio-economic organisation of probation work has rendered the service susceptible to challenges to autonomy over technique. PbR was proffered as a means to restore practitioner discretion; however, the article demonstrates that probation staff have been compelled to economise their autonomy, adapting their conduct to conform to market-related forms of accountability. In this sense, it presents the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms to probation as a case study of the impact of marketisation on the autonomy of practitioners working within a public sector profession.

Research and Information in the Probation Service

1976 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 117-120
Author(s):  
Adrian Hudson
Keyword(s):  
Probation Service

Crime Prevention Within the Probation Service

1985 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Laycock ◽  
Ken Pease
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Probation Service

On the specifics of providing assistance to convicts released from serving a sentence of imprisonment in the criminal executive legislation of the member states of the Commonwealth of Independent States

2021 ◽  
Vol 226 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
ANDREY M. POTAPOV ◽  
◽  
EDUARD S. RAKHMAEV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Social Adaptation ◽  
Legal Assistance ◽  
Correctional Institutions ◽  
Commonwealth Of Independent States ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Probation Service

Abstract. Based on the assessment of the penal legislation of the member-countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the article examines the mechanisms for providing assistance to convicts released from serving a sentence of imprisonment. Along with proposals on improvement of the mechanism of assistance to persons who have served the imprisonment term, in the form of expanding the circle of persons who are explained the procedure for applying compulsory medical measures, including social work as a form of organizing assistance to persons who have served a sentence, increasing the effectiveness of notifications about the upcoming release from places of detention, payment of travel to the place of residence and follow-up after the release, options are formulated for improving the domestic penal legislation in terms of providing work to persons who have served a sentence of imprisonment and providing them with living quarters, consolidating the nature of interaction between correctional institutions and centers of social adaptation, and other specialized state bodies, and in the future – the creation of a probation service. Proposals are being formulated for the legislative regulation of the availability of individual programs of social and legal assistance and the allocation of job quotas to released persons. The methods of encouraging individuals and legal entities who provide jobs to persons released from correctional institutions are described separately. Key words: penal legislation, imprisonment, release from serving a sentence, labor and living arrangements, social adaptation, probation.

Released from foreign detention: Examining reoffending rates among returning Dutch detainees in the Netherlands

2021 ◽  
pp. 206622032110337
Author(s):  
Matthias Van Hall ◽  
Laura Cleofa-van Der Zwet
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Criminal Offence ◽  
Background Characteristics ◽  
Probation Service ◽  
Offending Behaviour

At least 1,900 Dutch detainees are detained abroad yearly. They are housed in foreign detention because they are accused of having committed a criminal offence in a country that is not their country of residence. This study used data regarding Dutch detainees who were supervised by the International Office of the Dutch Probation Service to examine detainees’ background characteristics and their offending behaviour after returning to the Netherlands. The findings show that 23% of the Dutch detainees reoffended within 2 years of release from foreign detention. Furthermore, several background characteristics, such as their age at release from foreign detention, are related to reoffending behaviour.

Can the recruitment of ex-offenders enhance offender engagement? An assessment of the London Probation Trust’s engagement worker role

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nigel Hosking ◽  
John Rico
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Probation Service

Research has long established that the most effective strategy for reducing reoffending is to develop collaborative relationships with service users. Practitioners need to exhibit empathy, mutual respect, and an appreciation for the life, perspectives, and needs of service users. However, the balance between trusted confidante, and enforcer is a difficult one to achieve. With this in mind, the London Probation Trust (LPT) developed the role of engagement worker in order to provide practitioners with another resource to be utilised towards their attempts to establish successful working relationships with their service users. The engagement workers are former users of the Probation Service themselves - a life experience that allows them to successfully engage current service users, in a way that practitioners are not always able to do. Furthermore, in addition to supporting individuals to change, the experience of being an engagement worker may contribute to the engagement workers’ own desistance. Following a year of the engagement worker experiment, the project was evaluated by the LPT (now London CRC) research analyst. This chapter asks whether employing ex-offenders in this way can enhance engagement and improve outcomes.

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