1.Probation: A Profession in Transition 2.Probation’s professional project 3.Transforming Rehabilitation: The micro-physics of (market) power 4.‘Well, what are you?’ Professionalism, identity, and culture in probation 5.Probation practice, architecture, and an art of distributions 6.Payment by Results, ‘penal accountancy’, and the regulation of autonomous conduct 7.‘The right kind of person for the job?' Professionalism, probation values, and emotional labour 8.Beyond marketisation? The future of professionalism in probation
Matt Tidmarsh is a lecturer in Criminal Justice at the School of Law, University of Leeds. He completed his PhD on staff experiences of the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms to probation services in England and Wales, at the School of Law, University of Leeds, in November 2019. His research interests are interdisciplinary, drawing from criminology, sociology, and penology – with a particular focus identity, culture, and practice in probation.
"Ethnographic studies of probation are still rare and here Matt
Tidmarsh brings together observation and interview findings to
offer many deep insights into practice. An accomplished theoretical
analysis, drawing especially on Foucault, is interwoven with and
brought to life by engaging case studies, vivid quotations from
probation staff and acute perceptions of interactions with service
users. There are well-judged reflections on the architecture and
layout of one particular office and the effect these arrangements
have on probation practice and its meanings, both to staff and
service users. This is an instructive and rewarding account of
modern probation practice and is especially timely while plans are
again being made for probation’s future."Rob Canton, De Montfort
University, Leicester"This book, based on original ethnographic
research of probation in practice, represents an important
contribution to literature on what has been a too-often overlooked
area of the criminal justice system. The depiction of the
challenges of probation practice in the context of significant
turmoil following the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms are
powerfully conveyed in this study. This is a must-read book for
scholars of probation, criminal justice practice and those
interested in how professions are shaped by and respond to
government policy." Nicola Carr, University of Nottingham and
Editor Probation Journal"The book is an indispensable resource for
policy makers and senior managers who are now driving Probation
Service towards yet another reform. Researchers, students and
practitioners will also get an important insight into the interplay
between change and resisting change. To conclude, I would say that
the book is a must-have resource for those who want to better
understand the probation world at the beginning of the 21st
Century."Ioan Durnescu, University of Bucharest and Co-Editor
European Journal of Probation
"Ethnographic studies of probation are still rare and here Matt
Tidmarsh brings together observation and interview findings to
offer many deep insights into practice. An accomplished theoretical
analysis, drawing especially on Foucault, is interwoven with and
brought to life by engaging case studies, vivid quotations from
probation staff and acute perceptions of interactions with service
users. There are well-judged reflections on the architecture and
layout of one particular office and the effect these arrangements
have on probation practice and its meanings, both to staff and
service users. This is an instructive and rewarding account of
modern probation practice and is especially timely while plans are
again being made for probation’s future."Rob Canton, De Montfort
University, Leicester"This book, based on original ethnographic
research of probation in practice, represents an important
contribution to literature on what has been a too-often overlooked
area of the criminal justice system. The depiction of the
challenges of probation practice in the context of significant
turmoil following the Transforming Rehabilitation reforms are
powerfully conveyed in this study. This is a must-read book for
scholars of probation, criminal justice practice and those
interested in how professions are shaped by and respond to
government policy." Nicola Carr, University of Nottingham and
Editor of Probation Journal"The book is an indispensable resource
for policy makers and senior managers who are now driving Probation
Service towards yet another reform. Researchers, students and
practitioners will also get an important insight into the interplay
between change and resisting change. To conclude, I would say that
the book is a must-have resource for those who want to better
understand the probation world at the beginning of the 21st
Century."Ioan Durnescu, University of Bucharest and Co-Editor of
European Journal of Probation
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