RT Article
T1 What works in promoting ‘What Works’? A comment on Sanders, Jones and Briggs
JF Probation journal
VO 69
IS 2
SP 235
OP 244
A1 Raynor, Peter 1947-
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1804068047
AB This short article is a comment on the recent proposal of a What Works Centre for probation ( Sanders, Jones and Briggs, 2021). Any new ‘What Works’ initiative needs to be informed by the patchy and uneven history of research on the effectiveness of probation in England and Wales. Problems have included, at various times, failure to keep up with research in other countries; over-dependency on government departments to conduct and fund research; poor planning and/or implementation of experimental projects; excessive managerialism, and failure to engage practitioners in a research culture. Unless they are avoided, these problems will hamper any new initiative.
K1 Probation Inspectorate
K1 research centres
K1 pathfinders
K1 evaluation methodology
K1 What Works
K1 Probation
DO 10.1177/02645505221087977