RT Article
T1 Mind the gap: sentencing, rehabilitation and civic purgatory
JF Probation journal
VO 65
IS 3
SP 285
OP 301
A1 Henley, Andrew
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/173491145X
AB This article discusses the relationships and tensions between the sentencing, statutory supervision and legal rehabilitation of lawbreakers under UK legislation. It does so with reference to both the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, which allows some criminal records to become ‘spent’ after a set period of time, and the Offender Rehabilitation Act 2014, which was designed to significantly expand statutory supervision arrangements. The article also demonstrates how, post-supervision, many former lawbreakers are cast into a state of ‘civic purgatory’, before suggesting that a more fully integrated approach to rehabilitation is required.
K1 Criminal records
K1 Legal rehabilitation
K1 Stigma
K1 Discrimination
K1 Statutory supervision
DO 10.1177/0264550518776773