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Making sense of psychoanalysis in criminological theory and probation practice. [PDF]

, 2006
Recent developments in criminology have included a revival of interest in offenders' biographies and inner emotional experiences, and a stress on the importance of self-understanding for an understanding of crime.
Smith, David
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The diminishing voice of the probation service [PDF]

, 2023
Copyright © The Author 2023. In the past twenty years, the probation service in England and Wales has undergone four large-scale reforms, placing the service in a near-constant state of flux as it adopts to a revolving door of top-down re-organisations ...
Cracknell, M
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From 15,000 to near zero: Cuyahoga County's eight-year effort to address lawfully "owed" DNA. [PDF]

J Forensic Sci
Abstract This study presents the final outcomes of an eight‐year, countywide initiative to address “lawfully owed” DNA (LODNA) among individuals who should have had a DNA sample in the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) following a qualifying arrest or conviction but did not.
Lovell RE, Weston MC, Huang D.
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Prisoners Abroad Resettlement Service: Housing Security and Lessons for Probation [PDF]

, 2023
Copyright © The Authors 2023. This paper reports from a small-scale qualitative study involving people imprisoned overseas and supported by the resettlement service ‘Prisoners’ Abroad’ following deportation to the UK.
Cracknell, M, Ward, J
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Selecting and Hiring Psychologically Fit Probation Officers: A Focused Examination of the PEPQ / PSR Plus

International Journal for Court Administration, 2014
Selecting and hiring the most psychologically fit probation officers is of utmost importance to the judiciary, court administration and the public good.  This study examined the predictive validity of the PsychEval Personality Questionnaire / Protective ...
Don Scott Herrmann, Scott Bedwell
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Complaint against the actions of a probation officer [PDF]

Probacja
The right to lodge a complaint is to protect the public interest, the interest of the complainant himself, or the interest of another party with his consent, and at the same time it is one of the means of influencing the state authorities by society. The
Rafał Łukomski
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Sexual Offending, Language and Probation Practice [PDF]

, 2023
The label ‘sex(ual) offender’, is commonly used to describe those with a sexual offence conviction. Yet, this labelling does much to discourage the rehabilitative efforts of the individual with the conviction, and those supporting their rehabilitation ...
Teague, K.
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Selected factors relevant to the decision-making process during the performance of diagnostic activities by the probation officer

Polish Journal of Social Rehabilitation, 2019
The article presents selected aspects of knowledge that are important for taking diagnostic activities by a probation officer. I pay special attention to factors that play an important role in the decision making process of the probation officer during ...
Robert Opora
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MEASURING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROBATION OFFICERS – A REAL NECESSITY OR UNNECESSARY IMPEDIMENT? [PDF]

Probacja
The content of the article consists of reflections on the effectiveness and efficiency of the work of probation officers in the context of various determinants of the activity of probation services and the possibilities of making attempts to evaluate it ...
Beata Zinkiewicz
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Probation, rehabilitation and reparation [PDF]

, 2009
This paper is a version of the 2nd Annual Martin Tansey Memorial Lecture, organised by the Association for Crime and Justice Research and delivered on 7th May 2009 at the headquarters of the Probation Service of Ireland in Dublin.
McNeill, Fergus
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