Contemporary probation practice

著者

• Boswell, Gwyneth
• Wright, Andrew
• Davies, Martin

書誌事項

Contemporary probation practice

Gwyneth Boswell, Martin Davies, Andrew Wright

Avebury, c1993

注記

Includes bibliographical referen es (p. 211-212)

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The tenet of this text is that penal policy is currently subject to radical reappraisal by a government concerned to improve standards of performance and efficiency in the criminal justice system. It argues that for 80 years, probation officers have played an increasingly crucial part in the treatment of offenders, but there are question marks over their future role. In particular, this text suggests, their identity as social workers is being critically considered - both inside and outside the service. This text presents a research-based account of how probation officers themselves describe their role and functions and includes a critical review of the effectiveness of current training arrangements. The book concludes with an essay on the nature of probation practice today, written in the light of empirical enquiry and providing a base-line profile of social work in the penal system which should be of interest to anyone - including government officials - who want to change community-based correctional policy.

目次

• Probation training: a summer perspective: the survey
• the sample
• the appropriateness of probation training
• the probation costs
• the quality of college teaching
• the probation focus
• the quality of college teaching
• fieldwork placements and practice
• students evaluate their training
• some possible developments
• personal prescriptions for the improvement of training
• the recommendations in detail
• skills learnt
• the first year as a probation officier. Appendix I: methology
• some notes on conversations with probation officiers who considered leaving the service during their first year. Becoming a probation officer: through training and into practice: Introduction the officer's view of training
• learning on placement
• assessment
• the first year in probation service
• induction training and supervision in the first year
• confirmation - process and event
• summary and conclusion
• induction training and supervision in the first year
• confirmation - process and event
• summary and conclusions. appendix 2: focused interview schedule: the changing shape of hte probation: the changing shape of the probation service
• the front-line fieldworker
• the emergent specialisms
• tasks and methods, knowledge, skills and qualities: an overview
• levels of work satisfaction in probation practice
• summary. Appendix 3: methodology: holding the balance between court and client: the unique role of hte probation officer: the survey and the sample
• communication with clients
• client assessment
• mosels of intervention with clients
• functioning as a probation professional
• different skills in probation
• conclusion. Appendix 4.1: Some notes om the observation of a piece of probation practice. Appendix 4.2: the core skills interview schedule. Probation training in the early 1990's: training for the 1991 Criminal Justice Act
• anti-racist, anti-sexist and anti-discriminartory practice
• changes in teaching content and style
• programme partnerships
• a wholly specialist probation stream?
• the probation service perception of change in qualifying training. The socil work boudaries of probation work: introduction
• from rebellion to pragmatism
• from pragmatism to powerlessness
• disaffection amongst service leavers
• purpose and philosophy
• the continued relevance of social work in probation
• reconceiving social work on the care/control continuum
• conclusion.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA21228827
• ISBN:
  • 1856284514
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Aldershot
• ページ数/冊数: xii, 212 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • DC20 : 364.63