Probation, Community and Inter-Agency Dimensions: A Future Look (From Criminal Justice System: A Central Role for the Probation Service, P 119-135, 1989)

• NCJ Number: 121363
• Author(s): C Fullwood
• Date Published: 1989
• Length: 17 pages
• Corporate Author: University of Cambridge
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United Kingdom
• Note: Proceedings of the Clarke Hall Residential Conference held at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, in July 1989.

Annotation

This document examines some of the issues for probation working in the community.

Abstract

Despite the social work base of probation practice and philosophy, the social and community base is not utilized to anywhere near its potential. The four broad developments to probation strategies for working in the community are: (1) wider policy initiatives bringing radical approaches to the provision of services; (2) local authority responsibilities in respect of the impact of crime on local communities; (3) development of crime prevention work, and its theoretical and policy fluidity; and, (4) the stirrings of a reassessment within the Probation Service of its raison d'etre. A trend within these developments is community probation work, which acknowledges the fact that offenders and their families are rooted in a social context and that in dealing with their problems, the probation staff must work alongside other specialist agencies in those fields. 13 references.