Pub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.1177/02645505211041577
J. Phillips
This article analyses the impact of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation on practice, providers and practitioners. Since 1936 HMI Probation has aimed to improve practice through independently inspecting probation services. However, no research has looked at its impact on those it inspects. This is important not only because the evidence on whether inspection improves delivery in other sectors is weak but also because oversight has the potential to create accountability overload. Following a brief overview of the history, aims and policy context for probation inspection the article presents data from interviews with 77 participants from across the field of probation. Overall, participants were positive about inspection and the Inspectorate. However, the data suggest that inspection places a considerable operational burden on staff and organisations and has real emotional consequences for practitioners. Staff experience case interviews as places for reflection and validation but there is less evidence of the direct impact of inspection on practice. Ultimately, the article argues that inspection can monitor practice whilst also contributing to improving practice and providing staff with a way to reflect on their work, yet this balance is difficult strike. Finally, the article considers the implications of these findings for the Inspectorate and the probation service.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-20DOI: 10.1177/02645505211041578
Ebony L. Ruhland, Esther Scheibler
Probation is a sentence served in the community and includes a number of supervision conditions. If the conditions are violated, individuals could receive a sanction, including revocation. Not every violation, however, may receive a consequence. Probation officers have discretion for how they manage individuals on the caseloads. This study used qualitative data from two departments in a MidWest state in the United States, one rural and one urban, to explore officer decision-making in supervision. It is critical to examine these factors due to the high number of individuals revoked from probation each year. The study findings illustrate the factors officers use in monitoring conditions, as well as in violations and revocations.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1177/02645505211020523b
This was a very serious offence that might have attracted a significantly longer term of imprisonment. ‘Threats of violence against public servants doing their duty, particularly involving the use of a firearm, are rightly regarded with revulsion.’ The social workers ‘deserve the full protection of the law’. This episode had plainly had a deeply traumatic effect on the principal victim and an adverse effect on the provision of Social Services generally in that local authority. The fact that this victim had stayed in the house, continuing with her duties until the police arrived, was a measure of her courage and resilience, not a mitigating factor in B.’s favour. Her counsel’s assertion that she posed a low risk of re-offending was contrary to the PSR assessment that had made the point that that B.’s ongoing drug taking made that risk ‘significantly higher’. B. had never before been sentenced to imprisonment. She had had numerous chances to co-operate with probation and to comply with the various community orders which have been made in her case. The fact that she had failed to do so – and was in breach of a conditional discharge at the time of the current offence – ‘undercuts any suggestion that this was a case with “a realistic prospect of rehabilitation” . . . On the contrary, it might be said that by this offending [she] had finally crossed the line’. Any mitigation sought to be derived on account of B.’s mental health needed to be weighed in the light of her drug misuse, ‘the principal exacerbating factor underlying her mental health issues’. The pandemic health crisis had not been a material factor in B.’s crime. As her sentence had been shortened to reflect that consideration, she could not rely on it again to argue for suspension.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1177/02645505211020523a
1 (greater harm and higher culpability), the recommended starting point is 3 years’ custody following contested trial, with a range between 30 months and 4 years. Greater harm was not disputed but J.’s counsel took issue with higher culpability on the basis that he had not used either hammer or knife as a weapon in assaulting the victim. If the case should thus properly count as Category 2 (on the basis of lesser culpability), the starting point would be 18 months with a range between 12 and 36 months. Addressing first the judge’s efforts to correct himself as regards the victim losing consciousness, the Appeal Court found it ‘difficult to see why that made any difference, given that it was accepted that this was an offence of greater harm’. Moving on to culpability level, the Court observed that ‘irrespective of the issue about the use of a weapon or equivalent, there are a variety of other factors which point, inescapably, to this being a case of higher culpability’. In addition to J.’s dangerousness (see above), there were all the aggravating features highlighted in the Domestic Abuse Guideline (see above). J. had known that the children were in the house (he had been minding them inhis partner’s absence)andwere likely towitness hisprolongedassault, plus ‘the sheer number of injuries inflicted’. His victim was vulnerable and it was at the least arguable that this case involved the deliberate targeting of a vulnerable victim, notwithstanding being a spur of the moment attack, lacking premeditation. As regards the point sought to be made regarding weapon use, the issue could not simply turn on whether or not the perpetrator had a weapon in his hand which he used to strike the victim. The application of this aspect of the guidelines requires a more ‘holistic’ approach.Atdifferent times J. hadhadboth a hammerand a knife in his hand, clearly intended at least to threaten the victim while he assaulted her. He had also thrown a bottle of wine at her, showering her with broken glass, readily categorised as use of a weapon or equivalent. Further, he had hurled the victim against a table and then a cupboard. If he had struck her with a piece of wood, that would plainly have been the use of a weapon. ‘Throwing her against the same piece of wood is likely to cause the same type of injury.’ ‘It might properly be regarded as over-pedantic to say that that was not the use of at least the equivalent of a weapon.’ The judge had been fully entitled to conclude that this crime had featured use of a weapon or equivalent. In the Appeal Court’s conclusion, this prolonged episode of intimate partner violence had been so serious that the judge had also been entitled to go beyond the conventional upper Guideline limit of 4 years. Though a stern sentence, adopting a starting point of four and a half years, resulting in 3 years after credit for plea, had not been manifestly excessive.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1177/02645505211039485
N. Carr
Probation services in England were re-unified and brought back into public ownership on 26 June 2021, following the privatisation and division of services that took place under Transforming Rehabilitation. Probation in Wales had already been brought fully under the public ambit in December 2019, following the collapse of the Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC), which had operated there. The re-unification of probation services has been welcomed across a range of quarters, from trade union bodies and parliamentarians to the probation inspectorate. However, many who have welcomed the decision have also noted the heavy toll that years of disruption have had on probation services in England and Wales. A disruption that has been particularly marked in the impact on the probation workforce. We have previously published articles in the journal about the significant effects of Transforming Rehabilitation on staff across probation services both in the lead up to and following the implementation of the reforms. For instance, Phillips et al. (2016) documented the feeling of ‘relentlessness’ amongst staff who experienced the move towards the supervision of primarily ‘high-risk’ cases in the National Probation Service (NPS). In a practitioner response, Lee (2017) observed the need for enhanced supervisory supports, particularly to address the emotional impacts of working with high degrees of trauma among service users. A Special Issue of the journal marking the fifth anniversary of Transforming Rehabilitation (Volume 66, Issue 1, 2019), included an article by Walker et al. (2019), which documented the stresses and workload pressures experienced by staff in CRCs and the NPS, and which for some, led to their decision to leave probation work altogether. Further coverage in the journal has charted the vagaries of implementation, for instance through foreseeable difficulties in Payment by Results (Albertson and Fox, 2019) and the casting aside of smaller local voluntary services under the behemoth of large-scale procurement processes (Corcoran et al., 2019). Meanwhile in more recent years, we have published some of the areas in which practice innovation had been taking place and where some staff articulated a sense of excitement about the potential for the probation role. It is clear therefore that reunification will mean different things to staff depending on their position and experiences to date. Editorial The Journal of Community and Criminal Justice
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Pub Date : 2021-09-01DOI: 10.1177/02645505211025591
Sean Blackwell
This article addresses community corrections (CC) training from the perspective of a former practitioner. Though CC training has received modest consideration, academies’ roles in reinforcing occupational cultures are nearly absent from the literature. This article addresses this gap with an autobiographical account of an academy experience and shows that not only did the profession appear to attract candidates with public safety orientations, but also that the academy reinforced those orientations through a disproportionate focus on use of force and officer safety. The article considers challenges policymakers and managers face when attempting to implement reform in public safety cultures.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-16DOI: 10.1177/02645505211032171
Stephanie Grace Prost, Seana Golder, George E. Higgins, C. Pettus-Davis, T. Renn, T. Edmond, T. Logan
The current study aimed to identify the correlates of post-traumatic stress among a sample of women on probation and parole with a history of victimization. Community-based sampling was used to recruit 406 women on probation and parole in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The post-traumatic stress diagnostic scale was used to measure three indicators of post-traumatic stress: post-traumatic stress disorder diagnosis, symptom severity, and the number of life domains impacted by symptoms. Shaped by the comprehensive health seeking and coping paradigm, logistic and ordinary least squares regression analyses were used to examine the relationships between sociodemographic factors, criminal justice involvement, cumulative victimization, substance use, social support, material loss, homelessness, and post-traumatic stress. Models identifying correlates of post-traumatic stress accounted for between 18.6% and 26% of the variance and point to critical opportunities for intervention surrounding the dynamic factors of recent intimate partner violence and material loss. Targeting these important factors during community supervision is anticipated to decrease post-traumatic stress and increase the likelihood of success under criminal justice system supervision.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.1177/02645505211025077
Michael Sanders, Louise Jones, E. Briggs
The What Works Movement in the UK Government has seen the establishment of 12 centres to focus on evidence-based policy in different domains. In this paper, we present the challenges and opportunities posed by a What Works Centre (WWC) for Probation, based on our prior experience of establishing WWCs in other areas. Although there are legitimate and substantial challenges to some of the methodological approaches of ‘What Works’, we conclude that Probation is in an unusually strong starting position for such a centre to thrive.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-05DOI: 10.1177/02645505211025084
H. Kemshall, Tammie Burroughs, Soren Mayes, C. Thorogood
Desistance is now a key focus for probation practice in the United Kingdom. However, how to implement desistance in the workplace has remained challenging, particularly in the absence of practice guidance. This article presents the experience of ‘making desistance real’ in the context of Community Rehabilitation Companies. ‘Identity shift’ is presented as a core component of the desistance approach adopted, and practice designed to support services users to transition to a pro-social identity and their ‘best life’ is presented. The article examines changes in assessment processes and tools, outlines desistance informed interventions, and the engagement of practitioners in delivering desistance.
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