RT Article
T1 For Better or Worse?: Improving the Response to Domestic Abuse Offenders on Probation
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 64
IS 5
SP 1171
OP 1188
A1 Renehan, Nicole
A2 Gadd, David 1975-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1902446909
AB As the Ministry of Justice looks to develop a ‘new generation’ of programmes to reduce reoffending, we reflect on what can be learnt from the only accredited domestic abuse programme in England and Wales, Building Better Relationships (BBR). Findings from an ethnographic study of BBR are situated within the Probation Inspectorate’s recent inspection of domestic abuse work within the newly unified Probation Service which revealed a fractured and overstretched workforce. Our central argument is that if we are to avoid making matters worse, practitioners must be equipped with the time, supervision and skill needed to maintain something akin to a ‘therapeutic alliance’, that will endure in moments of crisis in their own lives as well as those of their clients.
K1 building better relationships
K1 probation service
K1 therapeutic alliance
K1 Domestic abuse
K1 Interventions
DO 10.1093/bjc/azae003