Tidmarsh, M orcid.org/0000-0002-6063-9805 (2020) ‘If the cap fits’? Probation staff and the changing nature of supervision in a Community Rehabilitation Company. Probation Journal, 67 (2). pp. 98-117. ISSN 0264-5505
Abstract
This article explores the changing nature of supervision in a Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) following the Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms to probation services in England and Wales. Based on an ethnographic study of an office within a privately owned CRC, it argues that TR has entrenched long-term trends towards ‘Taylorised’ probation practice. This is to say that qualitative and quantitative changes to the complexion of practitioners’ caseloads since TR reflect a decades-long devaluation of the probation service and its staff. The decision to allocate most qualified practitioners to the National Probation Service means that Case Managers (i.e. probation service officers) now supervise offenders who would historically have been supervised by Senior Case Managers (i.e. probation officers). This loss of expertise has been exacerbated by administrative staff redundancies at the office. The result is an increasingly standardised and fragmented mode of working within the CRC in which the majority of services are now delivered by the voluntary sector.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2020. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) |
Keywords: | probation, Transforming Rehabilitation, Taylorisation, managerialism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 02 Sep 2021 14:18 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0264550520911982 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:177357 |