After life imprisonment: the role of the probation service

2018 ◽  
pp. 175-190
Author(s):  
Catherine Appleton
Keyword(s):  
Life Imprisonment ◽  
Probation Service

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.

Reforming the ‘Fallen’: Voluntary Organisations, Probation and the Informal Regulation of Prostitution

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Settle
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Daily Routines ◽  
System P ◽  
Fallen Women ◽  
Probation Service ◽  
Informal Regulation ◽  
Voluntary Organisations

This chapter focus on the informal regulation of prostitution by examining the role of religious voluntary organisations in ‘rescuing fallen women’. Instead of punishing women who were caught soliciting by sending them to prison, the police and magistrates often turned to probation and voluntary organisations in an attempt to rehabilitate these women using a more penal welfare approach. The first half of this chapter will outline the ways in which probation sentences were used to police women who committed prostitution offences and examine the close links that existed between the new probation service and voluntary institutions. The second section will look more closely at the daily activities of these voluntary organisations, focusing particularly on the Magdalene Asylums, the Scottish National Vigilance Association (SNVA) and the Women Patrols. These case studies explore the ideologies, aims and methods of these organisation and how the daily routines and experiences of the ‘inmates ‘changed during the period. These case studies will allow us to examine how the collaborations that were established between these voluntary organisations, the police and the probation service influenced the regulation of prostitution and women’s experiences of the criminal justice system.

The right to an audience at court: Realities, risks and challenges. A qualitative study from the perspective of practitioners working in a Community Rehabilitation Company

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Woolford ◽  
Peter Salami
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Sentencing Decisions ◽  
Mandatory Training ◽  
Community Rehabilitation ◽  
New Public ◽  
Probation Service ◽  
The Right ◽  
Privately Owned

A fundamental role of the probation service is to provide advice and information to courts assisting in determining the most appropriate sentencing decisions. Historically, all probation officers as part of their mandatory training had experience in a court setting. Under the government’s Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms, probation services were divided into 21 new privately-owned Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and a new public National Probation Service (NPS). This resulted in the NPS assuming the right to an audience at court by statute and the withdrawal of a right to an audience at court for CRCs. This qualitative study conducted during the summer of 2017 seeks to gain an insight into the views of CRC practitioners on contemporary court practice, specifically exploring their views on not having a professional role to provide advice and information on their caseload in court. The interviews identified four themes, reflecting both barriers to, and facilitators of, the withdrawal of the right to an audience at court by the CRC. These themes illustrated that the initial developments in the courts post-TR did not give the opportunity for active CRC involvement, resulting in increased scrutiny and criticism of their practice.

Home Supervision

2020 ◽  
pp. 176-194
Author(s):  
Kenneth McK. Norrie
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Probation Officers ◽  
Child Victims ◽  
Authority Control ◽  
The Social ◽  
Probation Service

This chapter traces the origins of the most common outcome available to the children’s hearing – a supervision order in terms of which the child will remain in their own home. Social supervision grew out of the probation service developed at the turn of the 20th century, and was extended to care and protection cases by the Children and Young Persons (Scotland) Act 1932. The nature and role of probation officers in the early 20th century is looked at, supervising both child offenders and child victims, and the legislation governing probation is analysed. The formal shift from probation to supervision for all children subject to orders made by the children’s hearing came about with the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, under which the probation service came under local authority control, and supervision orders became the main outcome at children’s hearings. The nature of supervision in that Act and its 1995 and 2011 replacements is then examined.

Towards a desistance-focused approach to probation supervision for people who have committed Intimate Partner Violence: A digital toolkit pilot study

2021 ◽  
pp. 026455052110022
Author(s):  
Jason Morris ◽  
Andreea Antonia Raducu ◽  
Melissa Fuller ◽  
Sarah Wylie ◽  
Steven James Watson
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Service User ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Case Managers ◽  
Probation Supervision ◽  
Probation Service

We analyse practitioner and service user reflections on a digitally enabled toolkit designed to enable desistance-focused conversations within routine probation supervision of men with convictions for Intimate Partner Violence in England and Wales. We explore how to embed inclusive therapeutic service provision within the role of public sector National Probation Service practitioners through the testimony of case managers (N = 9) and people on probation (N = 7). We discuss the strengths and challenges of the approach and its implementation. The findings are discussed in the context of: the forthcoming Domestic Abuse Bill; the renationalisation of probation; the recovery of probation services following the COVID-19 pandemic; and the emergence of technology that supports desistance.

scholarly journals Ways to improve the enforcement of penalties and recurrence of criminal offenses

2020 ◽  
pp. 73-77
Author(s):  
B. Telefanko
Keyword(s):  
Effective Means ◽  
Criminal Policy ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Criminal Offenses ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
State And Society ◽  
Probation Service ◽  
High Level

The article analyzes the criminal law problems of execution of punishment in the form of apenalty, the reasons for evasion of convicts from paying a penalty, the role of the authorized body of the probation service. The author considers the relationship between non-payment of penalties and recidivism of criminal offenses, as well as proposes changes and additions to criminal and criminal-executive legislation. One of the features of punishment in the form of a penalty in comparison with some other types of punishment is that it can act as a punishment that can be replaced by another, and as a punishment that can be replaced by another punishment. Apenaltyis a very effective means of influencing those who have committed certain criminal offenses, primarily corruption and against property. The penalty is also one of the mildest types of punishment in relation to other types in the punishment system. In foreign countries, the fine is one of the most common types of punishment. The prevalence of fines in law and jurisprudence, methods of calculation, size, grounds and conditions of application were not unchanged and were ultimately determined by socio-economic, political, criminological and legal factors of specific historical periods. For Ukraine, this is especially important as a direction of state criminal policy. Due to non-payment of fines by convicts and replacement of fines by courts with other punishments, as provided by the Criminal Code of Ukraine, despite the declared goal of humanization of punishments, the number of recidivists will increase and this may provoke an increase in convicts. In order to apply only voluntary payment of a fine, as provided by the legislation of Ukraine, the state and society must have a high level of trust in laws and public authorities and confidence that no illegal act will go unpunished. Therefore in the article changes are offered to the current legislation on implementation of punishment in the type of fine. But a fine cannot be seen as a means of redemption from punishment or a means of ruining the guilty. As political direction of our state is directed sdws eurointegration, accordingly under it our legislation must be tuned. Now the tendency of more humane relation goes to all spheres of activity, in particular and implementation of criminal punishments.

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