Probation Round The World Kiochi Hamai et al Routledge, 1995; pp 233; £13.99 pbk
| Author | Hindpal Singh Bhui |
| Published date | 01 December 1996 |
| Date | 01 December 1996 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455059604300421 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
and experience, and does not ignore the
scarcely enables probation officers to
significance of unconscious,
work effectively with very poor and
interpersonal and emotional dimensions
illiterate people, often living in areas
of that identity and experience.
which lack the most basic community
It is a serious flaw in the book that
resources. At another extreme is the USA
concerns about and criticisms of the
probation system, where the ’correctional
radical femmist standpoint are set up as
officer’ may well carry a gun, is unlikely
oppositional and then dismissed. There is
to be considered a professional and
no attempt to engage with, or even
could, if s/he were working in Los
reference alternative feminist and pro-
Angeles, be holding a caseload of up to
feminist attempts to move on our
1,000 offenders at any one time.
understanding of domestic violence.
The Core material used in the book
Practice will be blighted if such
has been gathered from empirical studies
engagement is avoided or indeed actively
of probation systems in ten countries. It
thw:1rte(L
is divided into two parts. The first looks
Anne Ashworth
at some important issues in comparative
Court Welfare Officer, Rochdale
probation and examines the origins and
development of what is known as
Probation Round The World
probation in the different societies.
Kiochi Hamai et al
It reviews the steady convergence of
Routledge, 1995; pp 233; £13.99 pbk
probation practice within the Civil Law
and Common Law traditions, as policy-
In an era during which the Probation
makers have, to varying degrees,
Service has had to endure wave upon
recognised the importance of using
wave of political attack, and the energies
probation as a flexible response to crime
of probation officers across England and
in local settings. The second, and far
Wales have been drained by the fight to
longer, section documents basic
hold on to some form of professional
information about the sample probation
identity and integrity, the...
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