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This page brings together recent news, reports, articles, and commentary relevant to probation, rehabilitation, and community justice.

 

Latest news

The content includes both Probation Institute updates and selected external publications, chosen to support professional awareness, learning, and informed debate.

Items listed here do not necessarily represent formal positions of the Probation Institute, these are set out separately in our Position Papers, but reflect developments and discussions shaping the field.  

The News page is updated regularly to reflect developments across probation, rehabilitation, research, and practice.

 
Understanding Probation Supervision in Ireland: What Can We Learn From An Historical Approach?
Understanding Probation Supervision in Ireland: What Can We Learn From An Historical Approach?

Louise Kennefick, Deirdre Healy and Niamh Wade discuss what we can learn from an historical approach.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
Enabling Responsivity and Inclusion in Probation Interventions Using Digital Strategies
Enabling Responsivity and Inclusion in Probation Interventions Using Digital Strategies

Jason Morris explores some of the ways in which technology can be used to enable responsivity with people on probation.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
Should we be pining for the fjords? Probation, debt and desistance in Norway
Should we be pining for the fjords? Probation, debt and desistance in Norway

John Todd-Kvam provides an overview of his doctoral research.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
Critiquing The Gender Responsivity of Probation in India
Critiquing The Gender Responsivity of Probation in India

Karan Tripathi explores the extent to which probation practice in India responds to the needs of women.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
Rehabilitating people who have been violent towards their parents: A mother’s experience
Rehabilitating people who have been violent towards their parents: A mother’s experience

Thien-Trang Nguyen-Phan outlines her research into parents who have experienced violence and abuse from their now adult children.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
Improving drug treatment for people under probation supervision – co-commissioning, harm reduction and targeted interventions
Improving drug treatment for people under probation supervision – co-commissioning, harm reduction and targeted interventions

Article by Tony Margetts, former partnership manager for Humberside Probation and Commissioner for Drug and Alcohol Treatment for the East Riding of Yorkshire, now a self-employed consultant.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
Finding Social Purpose in a Pandemic
Finding Social Purpose in a Pandemic

Steve Doggett explains how Unilink made use of new research on the risk of suicide in custodial settings.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
Race equality in probation - still waiting
Race equality in probation - still waiting

Article from Kevin Ball, Senior Research Officer, HM Inspectorate of Probation.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
Scrutiny is the best way of delivering fair treatment
Scrutiny is the best way of delivering fair treatment

Article from Nina Champion and Hannah Pittaway from the Criminal Justice Alliance.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
How racism in the criminal justice sector harms women’s chances of finding work – and what Probation can do about it
How racism in the criminal justice sector harms women’s chances of finding work – and what Probation can do about it

Olivia Dehnavi provides an overview of their recent research on the discrimination faced by racially minoritised women with convictions when trying to find employment.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
Young People’s Engagement in Youth Justice Practices: implications for racial and ethnic disproportionality
Young People’s Engagement in Youth Justice Practices: implications for racial and ethnic disproportionality

Dr Alexandra Cox from the University of Essex and Aisha Ofori from the Centre for Justice Innovation.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
It’s all about the family
It’s all about the family

Seema Patel, from Northumbria University, discusses the role that families can play in reducing offending.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
Artificial intelligence, risk assessment, and potential racial implications
Artificial intelligence, risk assessment, and potential racial implications

Pamela Ugwudike examines the role of Artificial Intelligence in probation and potential racial implications.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
Resettling Muslim women with convictions
Resettling Muslim women with convictions

Sofia Buncy, Sarah Goodwin and Alexandria Bradley share some early findings from their research which is exploring Muslim women’s experiences of resettlement.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
PQ22 Editorial
PQ22 Editorial

Jake Phillips, Editor of Probation Quarterly, shares his thoughts on the key themes of this issue.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
Probation Quarterly Issue 22 published today
Probation Quarterly Issue 22 published today

We are delighted to publish PQ22 today, with submissions from John Todd-Kvam (University of Oslo), Olivia Dehnavi (Working Chance), Pamela Ugwudike (University of Southampton) and many more.

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Richard Rowley13 December 2021
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