Rethinking What Works with Offenders: Probation, Social Context and Desistance from Crime

This original new book reports on a major investigation of the outcomes of probation supervision. It is concerned with the key question of what works in probation, and comes at an important moment of change and development for the probation service in the UK. This book makes use of over 200 interviews with men and women on probation and their supervising Probation Officers. It presents a challenging range of findings on "what works" in probation and with offenders, and will be essential reading for anyone professionally concerned with the present and future of probation.