Articles

This paper considers the findings of a research project within the London Probation Area in which participants in a Drug Treatment and Testing Order (DTTO) programme (both those who had completed and some who had not and were in custody) were asked what had best supported them.

This article examines the centrality of victim issues within probation practice in an era of well-publicised, political rhetoric which claims that consideration for victims of crime is now central to the policies and practices of the Criminal Justice System.

Huge cultural changes are underway in probation. At the heart of those changes lie the frontline practitioners who have the daily task of working with offenders.

This article charts the development of residential work with offenders, explores its place within contemporary criminal justice and speculates upon its future role.

This article focuses on the early history of the probation unit in Inner London that had a specialist function to resettle the homeless and rootless, particularly on their release from prison.

At a time of major re-organisation through the development of the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) that brings together the work of the probation and prison services, this paper explores what it is that draws people into a career involving work with offenders.