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Supervising offenders in the community : a history of probation theory and practice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vanstone, Maurice
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
Series:Welfare and society.
Subjects:
Probation > Great Britain > History.
Police supervision > Great Britain > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The origins of the Probation Service : the orthodox accounts
  • The 'crusade' begins : the origins of the Probation Service revisited
  • Early practice : redemption, pledges, and terrible warnings
  • From awakening the conscience to providing insight
  • Folk theories, practice, and the heyday of treatment
  • The emergence of doubt : the non-treatment paradigm and alternative therapy
  • The rise to dominance of evidence-based practice
  • Conclusion : back to where we started.