Electronic Monitoring and Penal Reform: Constructive Resistance in the Age of “Coercive Connectedness”
Alongside its strategy for privatising the probation service, the Ministry of Justice in the Conservative-led Coalition government (2010-2015) hatched a plan to upgrade from radio frequency electronic monitoring (EM) to a much larger scale, and solo use of GPS tracking.
Manifesto for Higher Education (HE)
This is a manifesto outlining a relationship between higher education and the new agencies of probation, community rehabilitation and public protection. It argues for constructive partnership.
Bringing the Feelings Back: Returning Emotions to Criminal Justice Practice
This article argues that probation policy needs to take much greater account of the important role of emotion in probation and other criminal justice practice.
Probation, People and Profits: The Impact of Neoliberalism
A former probation chief, writing in 2013, targeted the Conservative-Liberal Democratic coalition government’s ‘Rehabilitation Revolution’ (Conservative Party, 2008) with withering scorn.
Innovation and Privatisation in the Probation Service in England and Wales
Is it possible that innovation can arise out of the privatisation of the probation service in England and Wales?
Book Reviews (14.1)
WOMEN AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE: FROM THE CORSTON REPORT TO TRANSFORMING REHABILITATION
Editorial: A Conversation with Paul Senior
In the heart of the old county of Westmoreland 10 probation colleagues from all parts of Britain were arriving at a remote hotel location in what had all the elements of an Agatha Christie Murder Mystery Weekend.