Tidmarsh, M orcid.org/0000-0002-6063-9805 (2022) Making, unmaking, remaking: Mapping the boundaries of professional legitimacy, identity and practice in probation in England and Wales. Criminology and Criminal Justice. p. 174889582211351. ISSN 1748-8958
Abstract
This article maps the (shifting) boundaries of professional legitimacy, identity and practice in probation in England and Wales. Probation established itself in the 20th century as a core institution in the modernist pursuit of offender rehabilitation; however, changing political economic priorities in recent decades have prompted a new consensus that also incorporates mentalities of punitivism, managerialism and risk. With a particular emphasis on the reunification of services after the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms, the article presents a practical and moral case for how the Government’s (re)professionalisation agenda can be developed. It draws upon the sociology of the professions literature to emphasise the service’s ‘interstitiality’ as a professional jurisdiction that operates between different social spheres. The article argues that reunification provides an opportunity to remake the boundaries of professional practice in such a way that people on probation can take ownership of their desistance, while reasserting the service’s internal self-image and external legitimacy.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Identity, legitimacy, probation practice, professional jurisdiction |
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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: | 10 Nov 2022 11:11 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 23:08 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/17488958221135108 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:193078 |