Supervising offenders in the community : a history of probation theory and practice
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Supervising offenders in the community : a history of probation theory and practice
(Welfare and society)
Ashgate, c2004
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  Saga
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  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
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  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-194) and index
Contents of Works
- The origins of the Probation Service : the orthodox accounts
- The 'crusade' begins : the origins of the Probation Service revisited
- Early practice : redemption, pledges, and terrible warnings
- From awakening the conscience to providing insight
- Folk theories, practice, and the heyday of treatment
- The emergence of doubt : the non-treatment paradigm and alternative therapy
- The rise to dominance of evidence-based practice
- Conclusion : back to where we started
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this work Maurice Vanstone provides an authoritative and original account of the history of probation. This invaluable reference tool offers readers a new way of reading probation history and presents an original context for thinking about current policy and practice. While the study is essentially UK-focused, it also provides a comparative perspective by exploring the history of probation in the USA. The author's research has produced the only history of probation practice that does justice to the mixture of influences on the early probation service and paves the way for today's more evidence-based approach. The work is based in part upon original documents and interviews with retired and serving officers. Supervising Offenders in the Community will greatly interest criminologists, criminal justice, social policy, social history and social work academics and postgraduate students.
Table of Contents
- The origins of the probation service: the orthodox accounts
- The 'crusade' begins: the origins of the probation service revisited
- Early practice: redemption, pledges and terrible warnings
- From awakening the conscience to providing insight
- Folk theories, practice and the heyday of treatment
- The emergence of doubt: the non-treatment paradigm and alternative therapy
- The rise to dominance of evidence-based practice
- Conclusion: back to where we started
- References
- Index
- Appendices.
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