Quality and effectiveness in probation officers' reports to sentencers
Preparations to implement the 1991 Criminal Justice Act in England and Wales included a pilot study organized by the Home Office to assess the impact of introducing pre-sentence reports in a wider range of cases in the Crown Courts. This paper reports some findings from the study concerning the vari...
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Medienart: | Druck Aufsatz |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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1995
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The British journal of criminology
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Bestand in Tübingen: | In Tübingen vorhanden. IFK: In: Z 7 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Preparations to implement the 1991 Criminal Justice Act in England and Wales included a pilot study organized by the Home Office to assess the impact of introducing pre-sentence reports in a wider range of cases in the Crown Courts. This paper reports some findings from the study concerning the variable quality of probation officers' reports; the level of agreement between the researchers' assessments of quality and those made by sentencers in the Crown Courts; and the impact of low and high quality reports on the sentencing process |
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ISSN: | 0007-0955 |