Probation Service Users: to empower or to exclude
Gibbs, Anita; Campbell, Diane; Johnson, Georgia
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Gibbs, A., Campbell, D., & Johnson, G. (2000). Probation Service Users: to empower or to exclude. Criminal Justice Matters, 39(1), 16–17. doi:10.1080/09627250008552840
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Abstract:
The Probation Service has shifted from its roots in social work and the use of benevolent care and control activities towards a corrections focused agency, charged with the task of reducing re-offending and protecting the public. But does this changed focus give the Service any rationale for practice which excludes Probation Service users a term I use in place of the more usual 'offenders', 'clients' or 'cons' which are in themselves demeaning and exclusionary? Or can the Service renew its long held commitment to anti-oppression and empowerment? The Probation Service is implicated in the exclusion of service users, but it can reclaim principles of partnership, inclusion and passion.
Date:
2000
Publisher:
Routledge
Pages:
16-17
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Copyright © 2000 Routledge
Keywords:
service users; probation; empower
Research Type:
Journal Article
Languages:
English
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