Beschreibung:
Lol Burke is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University. He has worked as a Probation Officer and Senior Probation Officer and was involved in the delivery of probation training prior to his current appointment. Lol has written extensively on probation policy, practice and training issues and is co-author of Redemption, Rehabilitation and Risk Management: A History of Probation (2011) with Prof. George Mair. Lol is currently editor of the Probation Journal and a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Probation. He is also a member of the Howard League for Penal Reform¿s Research Advisory Group, the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Community Sanctions and CREDOS (an international collaboration of researchers for the effective development of offender supervision).
This book offers an analysis of the delivery of rehabilitative services to offenders over the past two decades. It focuses particularly on the ideological and political imperatives of a neoliberal state that intends to segment the work of the Probation Service and hand over the majority of its work to the private sector.
1. Introduction 2. Contextualising Rehabilitation 3. Governing Rehabilitation: Politics and Performance 4. Providing Rehabilitation: Occupational Culture and Professional Identity 5. Competing Rehabilitation: Markets, Profit and Delivery 6. Widening Rehabilitation: Partnership, Localism and Civil Society 7. Blaming Rehabilitation: Citizenship, Exclusion and the State 8. Conclusion: Re-Imagining Rehabilitation.