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Treatment and rehabilitation have been central to the development of criminal justice policy, and have played an important role in the development of criminology. In recent years punishment and retribution have attracted more attention than rehabilitation, but there has been a resurgence of interest in treatment and rehabilitation, with indications that some things do 'work', and an emphasis on 'evidence-based' policy making. It is also the belief of many that a penal policy without an adequate treatment strategy is unjust and a denial of human rights. In this book Iain Crow provides an accessible overview of the concepts of treatment and rehabilitation, adopting a deliberately broad definition, and considers the historic
On Probation
On Probation
The Development of Probation
This chapter describes briefly the development and current concerns of the Probation Service in England and Wales, and then goes on to consider the service's role in the treatment and rehabilitation of offenders. The role of the non-statutory sector in working with offenders is referred to, and the chapter ends by looking at how the prospects for the Probation Service were developing at the end of the twentieth century.
The Probation Service has its roots in the activities of Church of England Temperance Society missionaries who started working in what were then police courts in the 1870s, although probation was already known in Massachusetts in the 1860s. The work of the missionaries was undertaken on a voluntary basis initially, first ...
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