Probation round the world: a comparative study

While they retain a recognizable common core, probation systems around the world are enormously varied and many are in a state of rapid change. Probation Round the World is a study of probation in ten countries, ranging from the well-resourced and heavily professionalized services of Britain and the...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London [u.a.] Routledge 1995
Edition:1. publ.
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Summary:While they retain a recognizable common core, probation systems around the world are enormously varied and many are in a state of rapid change. Probation Round the World is a study of probation in ten countries, ranging from the well-resourced and heavily professionalized services of Britain and the old Commonwealth to the reliance on lay-supervisors in Japan and the community-based system which has recently been set up in Papua New Guinea. Probation Round the World is the result of collaborative research involving the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), the British Home Office and experts in the ten countries in the study: Australia, Canada, Hungary, Israel, Japan, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Sweden, England and Wales, and Scotland. The results paint a picture of probation systems in a state of flux. Faced with rising crime, the more industrialized countries have placed renewed importance on probation as a means not only of reducing reoffending, but also of containing burgeoning prison populations. This has led to more overtly 'correctionalist' systems than before, as probation clienteles include a growing proportion of more serious offenders.
Physical Description:XXI, 233 S.
ISBN:0415115167
0415115175