Scott-Hayward, Christine S. and Henry F. Fradella, Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System

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ing development for professional autonomy in this field. Tidmarsh places hope in the reclamation of an occupational, not organisational professionalism and on the relationship between officer and offender, as crucial now as ever. This book is sure to prove useful to researchers, academics and postgraduate students with an interest in probation. It will also be of interest to some working in the sociology of the professions, or concerned with the implications of Coalition-era public sector restructuring. It advances Foucauldian analysis of punishment, not just beyond the prison but applied to a relatively under-researched sector of the criminal justice workforce. Tidmarsh’s nuanced explication of marketisation and professionalism deepens our understanding of how justice policy plays out among people ‘on the ground’. Theoretically sophisticated and rich in empirical detail, Professionalism in Probation: Making Sense of Marketisation is an impressive monograph.