Transforming Probation : : Social Theories and the Criminal Justice System / / Philip Whitehead.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Whitehead, Philip,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)

Written by an established author in the field, this book explores the politics of modernisation and transformation of probation in the criminal justice system. It is unique in drawing upon innovative social theories and moral perspectives to analyse changes in the probation service by including data from quantitative and qualitative empirical research. This highlights the challenges to, but also support of, the platform of modernisation that culminated in the transformative Rehabilitation Revolution. Providing critical tools for the reader to use in their own work and studies, it makes a timely contribution to criminal justice and probation theory and uniquely provides insights into what representatives of other organisations think about probation – from the outside looking in.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- About the author -- Introduction -- Probation and criminal justice, 1997–2015: from New Labour to the Coalition government -- Assembling the resources to theorise probation and criminal justice -- The religious and personalist tradition: or, reflections on the moral economy of criminal justice -- Putting theories and moral sensibilities to work -- Modernisation and cultural change under New Labour: views of solicitors, clerks, magistrates, barristers and judges -- Modernising monstrosities and transformational traumas: social theory, criminal justice and morality -- References -- Index