RT Article
T1 The revolving door of reform: Professionalism and the future of probation services in England and Wales
JF Probation journal
VO 65
IS 2
SP 135
OP 151
A1 Tangen, James
A1 Briah, Ravinderjit Kaur
A2 Briah, Ravinderjit Kaur
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1733911928
AB Reform of probation services in England and Wales has been a frequent feature of its history, though the pace of review, restructuring and modification has increased exponentially in the last 30 years. This paper provides a brief history of changes to the National Probation Service since its inception in the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000 to the recent announcements of the merger of prison and probation services into a new agency, Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service. Commonalities are identified between the various programmes of reform instigated throughout the last 17 years, drawing on insights from Pollitt. The paper addresses the implications for the future of a public probation service in England and Wales after the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) ceased to exist in April 2017 and Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service was inaugurated.
K1 Community justice
K1 Probation
K1 National Offender Management Service (NOMS)
K1 Organizational change
K1 Privatization
DO 10.1177/0264550518768398