RT Article T1 The First Probation Officers in England and Wales 1906-14 JF The British journal of criminology VO 47 IS 6 SP 938 OP 954 A1 Gard, Raymond 1961- LA Undetermined YR 2007 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639138722 AB This essay uses contemporary sources to argue that the first probation officers appointed following the Probation of Offenders Act of 1907 were very different from the Police Court Missionaries then working in the courts of London. It uses both published and archive material to reveal the methods and aims of the new officers and contrasts them with those of the existing system of Missionaries. The work adapts and borrows from Garland's (1985) work describing the creation of a penal welfare complex and, in particular, his analysis of the methods used by the newly appointed probation officers K1 Bewährungshilfe K1 England K1 Wales K1 Geschichte K1 Methoden