RT Article
T1 Transforming probation services in Magistrates’ courts
JF Probation journal
VO 65
IS 3
SP 316
OP 334
A1 Robinson, Gwen 1969-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1734913010
AB This article presents findings from an exploratory study of court work in two English Magistrates’ courts which was conducted in 2017. The study involved two principal research methods: observation of the daily activities of court team members and semi-structured interviews with 21 members of the two teams, which took place towards the end of the research. The aim of this article is to provide an insight into contemporary probation work in Magistrates’ courts, in the wake of two major reform programmes: Transforming Rehabilitation and Transforming Justice. The findings of this study raise questions about the contemporary relevance of the ‘narrative of decline’ that has featured in previous research and commentary on court work, and further suggests that - whilst it is early days - the creation of specialist court teams has not inevitably led to the ‘incorporation’ of probation workers into the dominant court culture.
K1 Courts
K1 Sentencing
K1 Practitioner roles
K1 Court teams
K1 National Probation Service
K1 Transforming Rehabilitation
DO 10.1177/0264550518776778