TY - JOUR

T1 - Hollowing out Probation? The roots of Transforming Rehabilitation

T2 - Special Issue: Transforming Rehabilitation

AU - Deering, John

AU - Feilzer, Martina

PY - 2019/3/1

Y1 - 2019/3/1

N2 - This article provides a critical perspective on the political and policy history of probation in England and Wales to develop a better understanding of how TR came to be. TR was only the latest act in a longstanding process of changing probation to fit ideological ‘flavours’, and we suggest that it is the hidden nature of probation work in combination with a lack of public legitimation work by probation institutions and probation staff that has placed probation in such a vulnerable position.

AB - This article provides a critical perspective on the political and policy history of probation in England and Wales to develop a better understanding of how TR came to be. TR was only the latest act in a longstanding process of changing probation to fit ideological ‘flavours’, and we suggest that it is the hidden nature of probation work in combination with a lack of public legitimation work by probation institutions and probation staff that has placed probation in such a vulnerable position.

KW - Probation

KW - Privatisation

KW - Organisational change

KW - CJ Legislation

KW - Organisational culture

U2 - 10.1177/0264550518820119

DO - 10.1177/0264550518820119

M3 - Article

VL - 66

SP - 8

EP - 24

JO - Probation Journal

JF - Probation Journal

SN - 0264-5505

IS - 1

ER -