Senior Probation Officer’s (SPOs) in England and Wales work at the ‘front centre’ of organisation’s hierarchy. They act as both manager developer frontline probation practitioners. Previous research has focused on emotional labour undertaken by practitioners yet there is very little SPOs, even though they must be skilful emotion managers their own emotions those supervise. Using data gathered f...

Method. A national survey was conducted of organizations delivering interventions to arsonists and young fire setters. This survey included fire and rescue services, probation areas, youth offending services, forensic mental health units, several government departments, and the National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders. The survey was followed by site visits to eight organ...

ABSTRACT A number of unpublished technical reports claim that drug courts have been more successful than other forms of community supervision in closely supervising drug offenders in the community through frequent monitoring and close supervision, including mandatory frequent drug testing, placing and retaining drug offenders in treatment programs, providing treatment and related services to of...

Research Summary: This study analyzed data on 7,306 offenders placed in 1 of 53 community-based residential programs as part of their parole, postrelease control, or probation. Offenders who successfully completed residential programming were compared with a group of offenders (n = 5801) under parole/post-release control who were not placed in residential programming. Analyses of program effect...

Many community mobilization activities for youth violence prevention involve the researchers assisting communities in identifying, adapting, and/or tailoring evidence-based programs to fit the community needs, population, and cultural and social contexts. This article describes a slightly different framework in which the collaborative research/evaluation project emerged from the community mobil...

As the correctional population continues to increase, probation agencies struggle to adequately supervise offenders with unique needs, including those with mental disorder. Although more than 100 U.S. probation agencies have implemented specialty mental health case-loads, little is known about their practices. Based on detailed observations of 83 audio-taped meetings, we examined interactions b...

IN THE PAST 20 YEARS, there has been a re-emergence of interest in the effectiveness of correctional treatment programs for offenders. This interest has led to the development of the principles of effective interventions (Gendreau, 1996; Gendreau, French, & Taylor, 2002). Research has now shown a link between these program characteristics and effectiveness (Andrews & Dowden, 1999; Lipsey & Wils...

With the current trend of moving intelligent services and administration towards the public private partnership, and the security controls that are currently in place, the shareable data modeling initiative has become a controversial issue. Existing applications often rely on isolation or trusted networks for their access control or security, whereas untrusted wide area networks pay little atte...

the man who commits a crime knowing that what he is doing is wrong but nevertheless takes a chance that he will get away with it. From here we passed on to consider the limitations of the help that the psychiatrist and the mental health services can give, realising that to ask for a psychiatric report can never solve the probation officers problem as if by waving a magic wand. Indeed it may rai...