lecture 3.2 - probation Flashcards

(36 cards)

1
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what has punitive control in probation changed socially?

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from social care to social control

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what does garland 2001 177 say about punitive control and what it did to probation service?

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formerly ‘the exemplary instance of the penal-welfare approach to crime control’
and now ‘much more conflicted and much less secure’

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3
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what is the commercialisation of justice in probation?

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  • managerialism and the loss of some professional discretion
  • failure of transforming rehabilitation (TR) and its ongoing consequences
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what is probation work (community offender manager) since june 2021?

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  • all offenders on community orders
  • all offenders on licence
  • PSRs and parole reports
  • breaches
  • unpaid work
  • OPBs and structured interventions
  • victim liasion
  • approved premises
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5
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CJA 2003 s177 states?

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community order

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6
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how many people on all forms of superivison in 2022? what percent are women?

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241,000
8% women

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penal welfarism/ probation superivision up to 1980s had what type of MANAGER compared to criminal justice/ offender management from 1990s?

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1980s = client, service user/ probation officer
1990s = offender/ offender manager

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penal welfarism/ probation superivision up to 1980s had what type of QUALIFICATION compared to criminal justice/ offender management from 1990s?

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1980s = social work qualification
1990s = probation qualification

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penal welfarism/ probation superivision up to 1980s had what MOTO and STYLE FOR PUNITIVE CONTROL compared to criminal justice/ offender management from 1990s?

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1980s = ‘advise, assist and befriend’ :guidance and support, considerable professional discretionary, lengthy individual casework
1990s = ‘assess, protect and change’: punishment, supervision and enforcement, limited discretion, group work, check ins

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penal welfarism/ probation superivision up to 1980s had what type of SUPERVISION compared to criminal justice/ offender management from 1990s?

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1980s = consent, voluntary supervision
1990s = compulsion, statutory supervision

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penal welfarism/ probation superivision up to 1980s had what VIEWS ON REHABILITATION compared to criminal justice/ offender management from 1990s?

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1980s = Rehabilitation as humanistic, rights based: structural responsibilities, social justice
1990s = rehabilitation as utilitarian, reduced reoffending: individual responsibility

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penal welfarism/ probation superivision up to 1980s had what type of MANAGEMENT AND NATIONALITY LEVEL compared to criminal justice/ offender management from 1990s?

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1980s = localised and individualised practice, independent from central government
1990s = national-level standardisation and required conformity

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13
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what values and ideals stayed the same between 1980s to change in 1990s for punitive control in probation?

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occupational culture continues to adhere to
-public sector values
-the probation ideal, and
- people work

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14
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what political rhetoric emphasises public perceptions for the lack of toughness of non custodial punishments and why?

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‘acting out’ by ‘toughening up’
- lack of toughness of non-custodial punishments superior effectiveness compared to short prison sentences

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15
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what percent of supervision orders successfully completed?

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3/4

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16
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what percent on superivisonal probation reoffend within 1 year compared to percent of prisoners

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56% probation compared to 63% prisoners

17
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what is there relative invisibility of in the CJS and why ?

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  • the little debate or public awareness of transforming rehabilitation
  • successes not newsworthy enough: only failures
18
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how is probation influenced by managerialism?

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  • statement of national objectives and priorities
  • target setting, performance measurement - league tables
  • national standards 1992
  • effective practice initiative 1998
  • national probation service 2001
19
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what did the national standards 1992 do for probation service?

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  • quality assurance = monitoring of standards
  • consistency and accountability for any deviation
20
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what did the effective practice iniative 1998 do for probation service?

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  • objective meta analyses
  • ‘nothing works’ to ‘what works’
  • accreditation panels for approved interventions
21
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what did the national probation service 2001 do for probation service?

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-protecting the public: OASys and ‘matching input to risk’
- MAPPAs

22
Q

what act stated the advent of privatisation for prisons?

23
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what happened in the advent of privatisation for national offender management service 2004 ?

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  • ‘end to end offender management, breaking down the silos’
  • to prevent dangerous offenders ‘falling through the cracks’
  • new roles: offender managers and offender supervisors
  • purchaser/ provider split: commissioning of probation services
24
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what replaced NOMS in 2017?

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what 3 things was transforming rehabilitation aiming to do?
- to encourage competition, innovation and efficiency
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what did TR do to change probation service?
- payment by results scheme to encourage innovation in rehabilitation - statutory supervision for more than 12 months - resettlement prisons and renewed focus on through the gate services
27
what statutory supervisions accompanies the TR?
the offender rehabilitation act 2014
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difference between National probation service (NPS) and community rehabilitation companies (CRCs)?
NPS = - probation qualifications - civil servants CRCs = -appropriate levels of training and competence - employees
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what was the failure of TR?
- underperformance of two tier and fragmented services - no pilots to test feasibility - higher than predicted NPS caseload = staff burnout - experienced CRC staff felt de-skilled - inexperienced CRC staff gave some poor quality supervision - CRCs sometimes gaming the system for financial reasons - CRCs not as profitable, or innovative, as anticipated
30
what did HMIP 2017:12 state?
none of the governments stated aspirations for TR had been met in any meaningful way
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what happened 2021+ for TR?
innovation partners to deliver some support services
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what continuing consequences are there for the failure of TR?
- probation service severely understaffed - excessive workloads: inadequate supervision - 500 serious further offences each year
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consequences for understaffed probation service
- ongoing recruitment but retention difficulties - high sickness rates for stress
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consequences for excessive workloads and inadaquate supervision
- delays in assigning offenders to a named PO/ COM - failure to ensure appropriate release conditions - incorrect assessment of risk, offending seen in isolation - lack of professional curiosity - failure to recall to prison promptly
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concluding thoughts on probation service
- probation has evolved from welfarism to justice models, influenced by managerialist practices - expressive toughening up of probation and efforts to restore public confidence in community penalties
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what did TR and part-privatisation reproduce?
- reproduced pre-NOMS 'silos' making reoffending more likely - newly reunified probation service faces considerable challenges