RT Article
T1 How has the weight of supervision changed in Romania in the last decade?
JF Punishment, probation and parole
SP 101
OP 119
A1 Durnescu, Ioan
A2 Istrate, Andrada
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1886846995
AB In the current chapter, we discuss the shape and contours of the field of probation in Romania as they appear in scientific literature and mass media, focusing on the concerns academics and professionals have voiced about Romanian probation. We analyse the timeframe from 2014 to 2021, after the introduction of the country’s New Penal Code (NPC). We structure our argument as follows. The chapter begins with a short incursion into the historiography of probation as a field in Romania. The focus, however, is on the adoption of a NPC in 2014, as this was a significant moment that led to changes for both probation workers and probationers. While we present the first 25 years since probation was instituted in Romania in 1997 as a period of experiments, trials and errors, we aim to highlight the development and consolidation that occurred in the period after 2014 (see Durnescu 2008, 2015; Preda, 2015a, 2017; Sandu, 2016). The NPC was intended to bring forward a reconfiguration of the probation system in Romania (Preda, 2015b). Beyond the promise of the NPC, the 2014–2021 period is one where probation edges into the public sphere via extensive media coverage, including the considerable number of probationers or a string of protests by probation counsellors who felt overworked and overwhelmed. We continue the chapter by analysing the composition and the dynamics of the probation population, always looking beyond the mere numbers to other analytic markers (i.e. numbers of obligations and lengths of the probation period). We conclude the chapter by arguing that our discussion of the ‘weight’ of supervision adds to the current understanding of mass supervision by looking at the aggregated impact that different social, political, penal and cultural factors have on probation practice. In other words, large caseloads, limited human resources, precarious material conditions and negative organisational cultures are likely to generate supervision experiences that can be better interpreted by looking and thinking beyond numbers.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 117-119
SN 9781837531950
K1 Strafe
K1 Strafjustiz
K1 Strafvollzug
K1 Bewährung
K1 Institutionalisierung
K1 Geschichte
K1 Verkehrsdelikt
K1 history of probation
K1 institutionalisation of probation
K1 new penal code
K1 weight of supervision
K1 road traffic offences
K1 over-crowding and over-charging
K1 Rumänien