Beschreibung:
This book reaches beyond criminological and policy analysis and presents the first comprehensive picture of who probation workers are, what motivates them and how they construct a working identity that sustains them in adverse working conditions.
1. Probation: A tainted but resilient concept 2. Lifers, second careerists and offender managers 3. There's a time and a place 4. Probation's changing relationships with courts, police and prisons 5. Perceptions, misconceptions and representations 6. Job crafting, coping and responding to adverse working conditions 7. Diversity and different voices in probation work 8. Doing probation work: cultures, identities and the future.