Legacies of Change: probation Staff Experiences of the Unification of Services in England and Wales

A discourse of professionalism has proved crucial to driving recent organizational restructurings of the probation service in England and Wales. The Coalition Government argued that bureaucratic, state provision of services had stifled probation practice—for which the introduction of market logic, v...

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Main Author: Tidmarsh, Matt (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2024, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 468-486
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