Delivering desistance-focused probation in community hubs: Five key ingredients
This article argues that probation is well placed to facilitate desistance when delivered in community hubs - community-based offices where probation services are co-located with other community-based provision. However, we highlight that hubs need to include certain key factors to maximise the pote...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Probation journal
Year: 2020, Volume: 67, Issue: 3, Pages: 264-282 |
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| Summary: | This article argues that probation is well placed to facilitate desistance when delivered in community hubs - community-based offices where probation services are co-located with other community-based provision. However, we highlight that hubs need to include certain key factors to maximise the potential for desistance. Using data collected through a piece of empirical research in six community hubs in England and Wales, we identify what factors make for a ‘good’ community hub as perceived by staff who work in them, those subject to supervision via a hub, and managers with strategic responsibility for commissioning hub services. We consider what it is about those factors which facilitate desistance-focused practice as outlined in McNeill et al.’s (2012) eight principles of desistance-focused practice. The five key factors identified in this study are the location of a hub, the hub’s physical environment, the extent to which services are co-located/produced, the cultural context of the hub, and the need for leaders to be innovative in the way services are commissioned. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications for the National Probation Service as it takes over the work of Community Rehabilitation Companies in the coming years. |
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| ISSN: | 1741-3079 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0264550520939176 |