Bail Hostels: Between Bail and Jail
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058903600118 |
| Published date | 01 March 1989 |
| Date | 01 March 1989 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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Bail
Hostels:
Between
Bail
and
Jail
The
Home
Secretary
intends
to
fund
700
new
bail
hostel
beds
over
the
next
three
years,
a
dramatic
addition
to
the
248
ex-
isting
places.
To
promote
debate
and
clearer
policy
objectives,
Giles
Payne,
a
trainee
probation
officer
at
Exeter
University,
outlines
the
development
of
bail
bed
provision
and
describes
his
recent
initiative
to
gather
better
information
about
the
use
and
effectiveness
of
bail
hostels.
~~;~
II
ail
hostels
have
been
little
research-
y,
ed since
their
introduction
in
the
Criminal
Justice
Act
1972.
Indeed,
their
sepa-
rate
identity
and
pur-
pose
within
the
appro-
ved
hostel
sector
has
struggled
for
recog-
nition
over
the
years
on
a
number
of
fronts.
During
the
1970’s
the
Probation
Service
was
concentrating
its
ener-
gies
upon
probation
hos-
tels
and
the
convicted
offender;
bail
hostels,
together
with
the
new
duty
to
assist
bailees,
were
seen
as
an awkward
distraction
from
the
core
task
of
developing
non-
custodial
sentencing
options
and
rehabi-
litating
the
con-
victed
offender
in
the
community.
Such
hostels
were
seen
as
low
priority
and
unwelcome
additional
competition
for
increas-
ingly
scarce
resources,
and
there
was
(and
still
is)
a
measure
of
ideological
resistance
to
probation
involvement
in
residential
facilities
for
unconvicted
and
unsent-
pnrprl
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