Doing Probation Work

This book reaches beyond criminological and policy analysis and presents the first comprehensive picture of who probation workers are, what motivates them and how they construct a working identity that sustains them in adverse working conditions.

Rob C. Mawby has been undertaking criminal justice research for twenty years and his publications have focused principally on policing. With Anne Worrall he has also pursued his interests in the supervision of offenders and the development of organizational cultures. He currently works in the Department of Criminology at the University of Leicester. Anne Worrall is Professor of Criminology at Keele University and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Western Australia. A former probation officer, she has written extensively about her two overlapping research interests, namely, women offenders and the probation service.

1. Probation: A tainted but resilient concept 2. Lifers, second careerists and offender managers 3. There's a time and a place 4. Probation's changing relationships with courts, police and prisons 5. Perceptions, misconceptions and representations 6. Job crafting, coping and responding to adverse working conditions 7. Diversity and different voices in probation work 8. Doing probation work: cultures, identities and the future.