Probation and COVID-19: Lessons learned to improve health-related practice

Probation staff perform a health-related role involving identifying health-related drivers of offending behaviour; facilitating access to support for these, including continuity of care for people leaving prison; and advising the courts on appropriate sentencing. This study analyses data from probat...

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Authors: Sirdfield, Coral (Author) ; Nichols, Helen (Author) ; Mullen, Philip (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Probation journal
Year: 2022, Volume: 69, Issue: 2, Pages: 216-234
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Keywords:
Qualitative Research
Rehabilitation
CRIMINAL justice system
Health
Pandemic
Covid-19
Probation
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Summary:Probation staff perform a health-related role involving identifying health-related drivers of offending behaviour; facilitating access to support for these, including continuity of care for people leaving prison; and advising the courts on appropriate sentencing. This study analyses data from probation staff surveys and interviews with people that were under probation supervision during the pandemic to investigate the impact of the response to the pandemic on a) this health-related role, b) the lived experience of accessing health support whilst engaging with probation, and c) partnership working and pathways into healthcare for people under probation supervision.
ISSN:1741-3079
DOI:10.1177/02645505221087980