Rehabilitation and Probation in England and Wales, 1876-1962 draws on a wide range of archive material to describe the arrival of a modern probation service. Focusing on the first half of the twentieth century, it describes the debates, conflicts and compromises that resulted in the creation of a state sponsored, centrally controlled, professional, secular, social work and psychological based agency. Following a chronological structure, Ray Gard explores the arrival of the so-called period of 'penal optimism', showing how rehabilitation arrived in the courts of England and Wales. The book uses archive and original material to give voice to those devising and implementing policy, revealing an uneven path to a modern probation system.
By:
Raymond Gard (Independent Scholar Germany)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 549g
ISBN: 9781472526328
ISBN 10: 1472526325
Series: History of Crime, Deviance and Punishment
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 23 October 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
"1. The mission to the Police Court 2. The first probation officers, probation 1907-1914 3. The Home Office takes control as treatment arrives, probation 1914-1928 4. The creation of ""A fully public service..."", probation 1928-1938 5. The emergence of a modern service, probation 1938-1948 6. Probation, social work and psychoanalysis, into the 1950s. Bibliography Index"
Raymond Gard is a former probation officer and independent scholar based in Germany.
Reviews for Rehabilitation and Probation in England and Wales, 1876-1962
Rehabilitation and Probation constitutes a useful contribution to the field ... [Its] detailed description is also one of the book's foremost strengths. Any historian researching the history of probation will be struck by the scarcity of secondary material and Gard's detailed account will therefore be a very useful starting-point. -- Magnus Niklasson, University of York, UK * Twentieth Century British History * [The book] pays due attention to the detail of most relevant histories while at the same time adds sufficient fresh detail and insight to enrich the cumulative history of recent years ... Each chapter is backed by copious notes on source and other information which will be invaluable to future historians ... A well-written and commendable work of scholarship. -- Maurice Vanstone, Swansea University, UK * Criminology and Criminal Justice *
