My Rehabilitation Revolution

Thought Pieces are papers which draw on the author's personal knowledge and experience to offer stimulating and thought provoking ideas relevant to the aims of the Journal.

Digging up the Grassroots: The Impact of Marketisation and Managerialism on Local Justice 1997-2013

Since 1997, successive governments have undertaken fundamental reforms to the criminal justice system in England and Wales.

Public Protection? The Implications of Grayling’s ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ Agenda on the Safety of Women and Children

The Coalition Government's new Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) agenda jeopardises the work undertaken with perpetrators of domestic abuse by highly skilled, qualified probation staff.

A Returning Probation Officer’s Thoughts on the Erosion of Professionalism in Offender Management and the Transforming Rehabilitation Agenda

Thought Pieces are papers which draw on the author's personal knowledge and experience to offer stimulating and thought provoking ideas relevant to the aims of the Journal.

Risk and Privatisation

The Implications of ‘Transforming Rehabilitation’ and the Importance of Probation Practitioner Skills, Methods and Initiatives in Working with Service-Users

With the anticipated reform of probation and rehabilitation services, it is important that existing practitioner skills, methods and initiatives are maintained and developed.

A Probation Officer’s Brief Reflections on Twenty Years of Rehabilitative Transformation

THOUGHT PIECE 'Thought Pieces' are papers which draw on the author's personal knowledge and experience to offer stimulating and thought provoking ideas relevant to the aims of the Journal.

Payment by Results: Hopes, Fears and Evidence

The idea that government should move away from paying for services to be delivered to paying in proportion to the level of reduction in reoffending achieved has obvious attractions, particularly in the current economic climate.