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A Non-Treatment Paradigm for Probation Practice
A. E. Bottoms is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Criminological Studies, University of Sheffield. Before beginning his academic career he was for a short time a probation officer in Essex.
William McWilliams is the Research Officer of the South Yorkshire Probation Service and an honorary lecturer in the Faculty of Educational Studies, University of Sheffield. He has worked as a senior probation officer and with the Home Office Research Unit.
Summary
Empirical and theoretical critiques of treatment can no longer be ignored in probation practice, but the probation service's traditional core values of respect for persons and hope for the future can be realized in a non-treatment context. Four traditional aims of the probation service are identified, namely (i) the provision of appropriate help for offenders; (ii) the statutory supervision of offenders; (iii) diverting appropriate offenders from custodial sentences; (iv) the reduction of crime. It is argued that each of these aims remains worth pursuing, but that they need radical reconceptualization in the light of the collapse of treatment A paradigm for practice in respect of each aim is offered for criticism and comment
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