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- Title
The Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders on Probation: An Assessment of the Changing Faces of Probation Service in England and Wales.
- Authors
Hussain, Basharat; Boswell, Gwyneth
- Abstract
In the field of criminal justice, one of the most difficult tasks facing practitioners is how to work effectively with offenders. The aetiology of criminality is complex, yet the public expect the responsible agencies to discourage potential offenders from offending, and actual offenders from re-offending. This article describes the origins and development of the treatment and rehabilitation of offenders on probation in England and Wales. It highlights how the Probation Service started its journey as a voluntary service and eventually became an integral part of the modern day criminal justice system. In this context, it explains all those important events which have transformed the Probation Service from a philanthropic organisation to a social welfare activity and, more contemporarily, into a correctional service charged with dispensing punishment. It ends by suggesting that there are lessons to be learned for jurisdictions in other countries so that effective policy and practice may be drawn upon, and mistakes which have been made can be avoided by others.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; CRIMINAL justice system; REHABILITATION of criminals; PROBATION; ALTERNATIVES to imprisonment; PUBLIC welfare
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Criminology, 2012, Vol 3/4, Issue 4/1, p1
- ISSN
2074-2738
- Publication type
Article