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Rehabilitation: What does ‘good’ look like anyway?

Author(s): Lesley Frazer,Nicola Drinkwater,Jessica Mullen,Clare Hayes,Katie O'Donoghue,Ellie Cumbo / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2014

This article explores the need for a clearer vision of what ‘good’ looks like in the rehabilitation of offenders, whether in prison or in the community. Such a vision is needed to underpin not only innovative, and evidence-based service development but also outcomes led commissioning, and (in the context of England and Wales) the procurement of packages of rehabilitation services most likely to support the desistance process. The need for this is greater than ever, due to the current UK Government’s Transforming Rehabilitation reforms that are set to dramatically alter criminal justice policy in England and Wales.

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F McNeill and K Beyens (eds), Offender Supervision in Europe

Author(s): Madeline Petrillo / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2014

Review of: Madeline Petrillo - F McNeill and K Beyens (eds), Offender Supervision in Europe, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, pp. 176; ISBN is 978-1-137-37917-7, £65.00 (hbk); ISBN 978-1-137-37918-4, £22.99 (pbk)

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“They might as well be walking around the inside of a biscuit tin”: Barriers to Employment and Reintegration for ‘Politically Motivated’ Former Prisoners in Northern Ireland

Author(s): Clare D. Dwyer / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2013

The prisoner provisions under the Northern Ireland Peace Agreement emphasised the importance of the reintegration and civic inclusion of ‘politically motivated’ former prisoners; however, numerous barriers to full reintegration remain. Notwithstanding the fact that these prisoners were released as part of a peace process, based on principles of conflict transformation and reconciliation, there were still numerous conditions placed upon them as part of their release process and they continued to hold a ‘criminal’ record upon release. As with ‘ordinary’ ex-prisoners, these ‘politically motivated’ former prisoners have subsequently faced numerous obstacles in their attempts to reintegrate back into society, particularly in the area of employment. Recognising that they needed to deal with the consequences of imprisonment, ‘politically motivated’ former prisoners formed numerous self-help organisations to assist in the reintegration process and have mobilised to lobby for protection against the discrimination and unequal treatment experienced by ex-prisoners seeking employment. This article explores the remaining barriers to employment for ‘politically motivated’ former prisoners and the consequences of these barriers. The article moves to assess how prisoner groups have subsequently used a ‘rights based’ discourse to engage local government in their struggle to overcome existing obstacles before finally concluding that any piecemeal attempt to remove barriers to full reintegration will only impede the longer term conflict transformation process in Northern Ireland.

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Healy, Deirdre: The Dynamics of Desistance: Charting Pathways through Change

Author(s): Nigel Elliott / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2013

Review of: Nigel Ellliott - Healy, Deirdre (2012) The Dynamics of Desistance: Charting Pathways through Change, Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-84392-783-9 (hbk., £80-00); 978-0-415-62805-1 (pbk., £24-95)

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Joanna Shapland, Gwen Robinson and Angela Sorsby; Restorative Justice In Practice – Evaluating What Works for victims and offenders

Author(s): Liz Dixon / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2013

Review of: Liz Dixon - Joanna Shapland, Gwen Robinson and Angela Sorsby. (2011) Restorative Justice In Practice – Evaluating What Works for victims and offenders. London. Routledge ISBN 978- 1- 84392- 845- 4

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Unpaid work as an alternative to imprisonment for fine default in Austria and Scotland

Author(s): Gill McIvor,Carlotta Pirnat,Christian Grafl / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

Many jurisdictions have introduced other non-custodial measures to decrease the usage of fines, nevertheless they are still a popular sanction. Although the majority of offenders fined pay their fine, some are unable or unwilling to do so and as a consequence can be imprisoned. At a time when prisons are overcrowded and short term sentences are a substantial administrative endeavour, with little to no re-socializing potential, many jurisdictions have implemented other measures to prevent imprisonment for fine default such as unpaid work. Both Austria and Scotland have implemented the possibility of unpaid work as an alternative to imprisonment for fine default. While Scotland has almost 20 years of experience, Austria has just recently implemented the option of community work for fine defaulters in 2008. This article examines the experience of unpaid work as an alternative to imprisonment for fine default in these two contrasting jurisdictions and discusses the key differences between them. It considers whether the implementation of unpaid work as an alternative to imprisonment for fine default in each jurisdiction fulfilled the original policy intentions and what wider lessons can be learned from their experiences of unpaid work for offenders who fail to pay their fines.

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Mawby, R.C., Worrall, A., Doing Probation Work: Identity in a Criminal Justice Occupation

Author(s): Keith Davies / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2013

Review of: Keith Davies - Mawby, R.C., Worrall, A. (2013): Doing Probation Work: Identity in a Criminal Justice Occupation. Abingdon. Routledge.

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Desistance, reflexivity and relationality: a case study

Author(s): Elizabeth Weaver / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2013

This paper presents the analysis of a single life-story drawn from a larger study examining the individual, relational and structural contributions to the desistance process. The emphasis here is on the contributions of key social relations in ‘Evan’s’ narrative of change. How people relate to one another, and what these relationships mean to them both as individuals and together, are critical aspects of understanding the role of social relations in desistance. This paper concludes by considering how penal practices might generate and sustain the kinds of social capital and reflexive, relational networks relevant to desistance.

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DBH-Materialien Nr.67: Außensicht der Innensicht - Bewährungshilfe in der Erinnerung ehemaliger Bewährungshelfer

Author(s): Anette Jager / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2013

Review of: Anette Jager - DBH-Materialien Nr.67: Außensicht der Innensicht - Bewährungshilfe in der Erinnerung ehemaliger Bewährungshelfer, Autor: Paul Reiners

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Does reintegration need REHAB? Early release procedures for prisoners without a legal permit of residence in Belgium

Author(s): Steven De Ridder,Kristel Beyens,Sonja Snacken / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012

Since the eighties, Belgium faces an increasing number of foreign prisoners. Accordingly, the number of foreign prisoners without a legal permit of residence, who are incarcerated in Belgian prisons due to (suspicion of) violation of the Belgian Criminal law is also rising. With regard to early release, all prisoners fall under the Belgian penitentiary Acts of 2005 and 2006 in which „reintegration‟ is an important leading principle. However, a considerable part of the foreign prisoners without a legal permit of residence is exposed to expulsion under the Belgian Act of 1980 on the entry, stay, settlement and expulsion of foreigners after their (early) release. The use of different legal frameworks with conflicting rationales with regard to release from prison has consequences for the possibilities to prepare the reintegration of foreign prisoners without residence permit. The aim of this article is to analyse the meaning, use and importance of the reintegration principle with regard to the early release from prison of foreign prisoners without a legal permit of residence. The consequences of the interaction of requirements from immigration and penitentiary laws with regard to their release in society will be discussed. Also some statistical data on the presence of foreign prisoners without a legal permit of residence in the Belgian prisons are presented and commented from a methodological point of view.

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Ugelvik, T. and Dullum, J. (eds): Penal Exceptionalism? Nordic Prison Policy and Practice

Author(s): Ioan Durnescu / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012

Review of: Ioan Durnescu - Ugelvik, T. and Dullum, J. (eds) (2012) Penal Exceptionalism? Nordic Prison Policy and Practice, Routledge

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George Mair and Lol Burke: Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management: A History of Probation

Author(s): Eleanor Fellowes / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2012

Review of: Eleanor Fellowes - Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management: A History of Probation, George Mair and Lol Burke, Routledge (2011); 216pp, ISBN: 9781843922490

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Recalling conditionally released prisoners in England and Wales

Author(s): Nicola Padfield / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2012

This article explores the recent enormous increase in the number of prisoners recalled each year to prison in England and Wales: prisoners who had previously been released, either automatically or on the direction of the Parole Board. It explores law and practice, focusing in the analysis on pre-release processes, the process of recall and on the prisoner’s journey towards re-release. Having considered the role of the Parole Board and of the executive more generally, the paper concludes that there should be a review of whether „sentence review courts‟ would work better to encourage offenders to earn their way out of prison and off supervision.

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Joanna Shapland, Gwen Robinson and Angela Sorsby: Restorative Justice in Practice – Evaluating what works for victims and offenders

Author(s): Edit TÖRZS / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2012

Review of: Edit TÖRZS - Joanna Shapland, Gwen Robinson and Angela Sorsby (2011) Restorative Justice in Practice – Evaluating what works for victims and offenders, Willan, Routledge ISBN: 978-1-84392-845-4 (pbk., p.228, Ł25.99)

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Philip Priestley and Maurice Vanstone: Offenders or Citizens? Readings in Rehabilitation

Author(s): Ray Crews / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2012

Review of: Ray Crews - Philip Priestley and Maurice Vanstone (2010). Offenders or Citizens? Readings in Rehabilitation. Devon: Willan

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Organisational change, increasing managerialism and social work values in the Belgian Houses of Justice, Department of Offender Guidance

Author(s): Aline Bauwens / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2011

This paper examines the impact of organisational change in the Belgian Houses of Justice, Department of Offender Guidance. The change that occurred in the Houses of Justice can be defined as incremental change. While Belgian probation has been managerialised in its processes and to a lesser extent its practices, it has not been subjected to the same shift in its purposes. However, one question currently remains: can the increasing emphasis on managerialism leave the social work values and aims of the Houses of Justice in place, or not?

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Practical Wisdom and the Ethic of Care in Probation Practice

Author(s): Marilyn J. Gregory / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2011

In 2003 the author interviewed 15 experience probation officers from one probation area about the nature of their work as probation officers. These participants had trained in an earlier ‘clinical mode’ of practice, when rehabilitation was to the fore and casework methods were still enshrined in practice. Now they found themselves in a ‘punitive managerialist’ mode of practice. The study found that the participants, through the use of their skills as reflective practitioners, resisted the worst excesses of punitive managerialism and continued to practice in a way that balanced the demands of justice and care. This article looks at their commitment to the worker-client relationship and suggests that it is consonant with an approach to probation practice based upon the desistance paradigm, which in turn fits within a restorative justice framework for criminal justice practice.

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Signs of resistance? Swedish probation officers’ attitudes towards risk assessments

Author(s): Anders Persson,Kerstin Svensson / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2011

The Swedish Prison and Probation Service has been influenced by the „What Works‟ agenda since the late 1990‟s and an orientation towards risk and risk management has gradually become visible in the organization. But there is, within the probation service, a discrepancy between two types of logics – an organizational logic and a professional logic. Although guidelines prescribe the use of risk-assessment tools, they are in reality seldom used by practitioners. Through an examination of the reasons given by the probation officers who expressed doubts or concerns about the risk-concept, we question whether this could be seen as signs of resistance based on professional logic.

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‘It Could be us’: Recent Transformations in the Use of Community Service as a Punishment in Spain

Author(s): Ester Blay / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2010

Community service orders, or work for the benefit of the community orders, were introduced in Spanish legislation with the 1995 Criminal Code. Its practical use was until recently scant, and has since 2008 exploded in numerical terms. After describing the legal framework and aims of this sanction, this paper focuses on recent developments in the use of this penalty and in implementation and supervision practices. It draws from analysis of Parliamentary debates, sentences passed by judges, official statistics and other official documents, and interviews with judges, public prosecutors, supervisors and senior civil servants responsible for implementation.

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Iganski, P.: Hate Crime’ and the city

Author(s): Laura Nettleingham / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2010

Review of: Laura Nettleingham - Iganski, P. (2008), Hate Crime’ and the city, Bristol: Policy Press

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