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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792198403321

Autore

Mawby Rob C.

Titolo

Doing probation work : identity in a criminal justice occupation / / Rob C. Mawby and Anne Worrall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-26176-1

0-203-10740-3

1-299-27930-9

1-136-26177-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

Routledge frontiers of criminal justice ; ; 9

Altri autori (Persone)

WorrallAnne

Disciplina

364.6/302341

Soggetti

Probation officers - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Doing Probation Work; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Probation - a tainted but resilient concept; 2. Lifers, second careerists and offender managers; 3. There's a time and place; 4. Probation's changing relationships with courts, police and prisons; 5. Perceptions, misconceptions and representations; 6. Job crafting, coping and responding to adverse working conditions; 7. Diversity and different voices in probation work; 8. Doing probation work: cultures, identities and the future; Appendix A: Our participants

Appendix B: Project information sheet and schedule of interview questionsNotes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A great deal has been written about the political, policy and practice changes that have shaped probation work but little has been written on the changes to occupational cultures and the ways in which probation workers themselves view their role. This book fills that gap by exploring the meaning of 'doing probation work' from the perspective of probation workers themselves. Based on 60 extensive interviews with probation workers who joined the probation service from the 1960s to the present day, this book reaches beyond criminological and policy analysis to an application of s