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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"probation service"”.
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Strategic Analysis of the Swedish Prison & Probation Service
… the strategic analysis of the Swedish Prison & Probation Service, and how it is perceived by employees at Kumla Prison. The strategic analysis was conducted by examining and comparing official information to a strategic framework by Steinþórsson (2003b), based on four dimensions; Purpose, …
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Social reintegration of offenders : the role of the probation service in North West Frontier Province, Pakistan
This thesis examines the role of the probation system in the social reintegration of offenders in NWFP, Pakistan. Probation is the punishment most widely associated with rehabilitation and helping offenders to lead law-abiding lives. The probation system in Pakistan has a colonial origin. The …
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Fragmenting probation? A qualitative study of voluntary, public and private sectors’ interactions in supervision
… and private companies as providers of probation services in England and Wales. The study focusses on the everyday experience of probation supervision in an increasingly multi-agency environment and explores this experience from the point of view of probation workers and the people they …
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Probation, Politics, Policy and Practice: From New Labour to the Coalition government
… that have ultimately led to the demise of the Probation Service as a unified public sector organisation. Two main themes are evident in my writing. The first is a critique of how an ideological commitment to economic neo-liberalism and accompanying social conservatism has shaped contemporary …
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Conspicuous by their absence: Bearing witness to the silenced voices of black women in the criminal justice system
… CJS agencies: the Police, the Courts, the Prison Service, and the Probation Service and highlight at every stage of the CJS, Black women are disproportionately discriminated against with consistently poor outcomes. The data suggests that, in an already problematic system, poor treatment and …
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Probacijos panaikinimas dėl probuojamųjų pažeidimų /
Probation is a conditional alternative to a custodial sentence (deferred sentence and the release on parole from correctional institutions), during which the probationer is supervised. Its aim is to ensure that the probationer has an effective resocialization and to reduce re-offending. If the …
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Overdoses, suicidal behaviour and clinical characteristics in heavy drug users. Studies in the Criminal Justice System.
… Methods: Since 2001, the Swedish Prison and Probation Service has assessed substance-using clients with the Addiction Severity Index (ASI), a semi-structured instrument widely used to examine substance-related problems in different domains of life. This data material is based on 7,085 …
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Managing a risky business : developing the professional practice of police and probation officers in the supervision of high risk offenders
… that explores how the police and the probation services actually interpret and implement policy and manage mutual institutional pressures and biases. It does so by using interviews and debriefing process with police and probation practitioners, as well as by drawing upon the author’s …
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A psychotherapeutic service for women in an independent approved premise: a case study
… what providing an on-site psychotherapeutic service means to residents who have not previously engaged with the service and for the staff who refer residents. To date, there are limited studies of this phenomenon in a woman-only IAP and on what support women need from a psychotherapeutic …
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Probation workers' practice and practice ideals in a culture of control
… focuses on the practice and culture of probation workers in two offender management units in England. The PhD asks how broad theories of penal transformation have impacted on probation practice and practice ideals by looking at what probation workers say they are trying to achieve in …
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The role of the community service order and the suspended sentence in Ireland: a judicial perspective
… of a term of imprisonment namely, the community service order and the suspended sentence. The community service order remains under-utilised as an alternative to the custodial sentence. The suspended sentence is used quite liberally but its function may be more closely related to the aim of …
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Creating ‘community’ through criminal justice policy: Engaging citizens and determining responsibility
… the arena of community justice (in the courts, probation service, police service and those working in restorative justice arrangements). In addition, volunteers and third sector staff in the local ward served by the courts and other community justice initiatives were interviewed, along with a …