Introducing the Napo Archive
| Published date | 01 September 2021 |
| DOI | 10.1177/02645505211024330 |
| Date | 01 September 2021 |
| Subject Matter | Comment |
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Introducing the
Napo Archive
Jill Annison
University of Plymouth, UK
Jane Dominey
Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK
Abstract
This comment piece outlines the genesis of the Napo Archive and the process of its
establishment at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge. It outlines
the scope that these resources offer for researchers, students, and for those with a
more general interest in probation. It also points to the unique vantage points that
these materials could offer in relation to investigations into the historical development
of probation policy and practice, and the emergence of Napo as a professional
organisation and subsequently as a trade union.
Keywords
Napo (the Trade Union, Professional Association and campaigning organisation for
Probation and Family Court Staff), probation, historical criminology, archives,
organisational change
Introduction
After the period of turbulence and change that has marked the past 20 years, much
of probation’s primary documentation, charting more than a hundred years of
policy and practice development, has disappeared. This comment piece outlines the
process of gathering and saving papers from Napo (formerly the National Asso-
ciation of Probation Officers), alongside other donated items from various proba-
tion sources, to form an archive at the Institute of Criminology’s Radzinowicz Library
Corresponding Author:
Jane Dominey, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA,
UK.
Email: jad78@cam.ac.uk
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The Journal of Community and Criminal Justice
2021, Vol. 68(3) 365–370
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