Maurice Vanstone
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4581409 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Maurice Vanstone |
| NOMBRES | Maurice |
| APELLIDO | Vanstone |
| FIRMA | VANSTONE M |
| AFILIACIONES | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2758-1610 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Reducing the use of imprisonment. Lessons from Probation Day Centres in England and Wales
Day Reporting Centres as an alternative to prison have become a feature of the Criminal Justice Systems of most States in America. In contrast, Day Centres have virtually disappeared from the curricula of Probation services in England and Wales. In this paper we look back on the short history of day centre provision in this country and examine what can be learned from its different forms and assess the viability of reintroducing the concept as a …
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Rehabilitation in Criminal Justice
Probation
This entry provides a broad definition of probation that encompasses its most common legal framework and its central purposes. These are placed within the context of the history of its international development and a critical account of how the concept has been transformed in England and Wales by increased political attention and accountability. In turn, the latter highlights the tensions between notions of public service and privatization
Moving Away from Social Work and Half Way Back Again
Research on social work in the criminal justice system was well represented in the social work literature until the 1990s. Since then, changes in the organisation, training and research base of probation practice, particularly in England and Wales, have all contributed to a separation between probation research and the mainstream social work research literature. However, recent probation research, by focusing on individual practice skills and on …
The impact of skills in probation work
This article reports on the results of a quasi-experimental study of practitioners’ skills in probation work. Videotaped interviews were produced by a group of probation officers and analysed by researchers using a checklist designed to identify the range of skills used in one-to-one supervision. Reconviction rates were found to be significantly lower among those whose supervisors were assessed as using a wider range of skills. The article also r…
Learning Lessons from Men Who Have Sexually Abused Children
The sexual abuse of children and young people by those who work with them is a global problem. Yet, our knowledge of this form of abuse remains limited. There is a dearth of research on offenders' accounts of how they perpetrated abuse within a paid work or voluntary sector environment. Thus, our focus here is on data collected during individual interviews with eight adult males who had been imprisoned for abusing a total of 35 children while in …
Rehabilitation as Presented in British Film
Violent crime is one of the great subjects of world cinema; and oblique appeals for social reform – especially, for example, vis‐à‐vis capital punishment – also play a role in countless scores of films. However, explicit studies on the nature of self‐reform and the professional social services which might help effect it are few and far between. While still keeping an eye on the broader international context, in this article we examine four Britis…
What works in resettlement? Findings from seven Pathfinders for short-term prisoners in England and Wales
This article presents findings from the evaluation of Phase One of the resettlement ‘Pathfinder’, which was funded under the Home Office Crime Reduction Programme. Seven projects (four probation-led and three run by voluntary agencies) targeted the resettlement needs and/or offending behaviour of adults sentenced to prison for under 12 months, who are currently not subject to post-release supervision. All participants received help with welfare n…
Getting out and staying out
Short-term prisoners have exceptionally high reconviction rates. Growing recognition of this and of deficiencies in prison-probation coordination has accelerated ‘resettlement’ of ex-prisoners up the penal agenda. This report looks at the effectiveness of these strategies in detail through three case studies of ‘Resettlement Pathfinders’ projects
Gender, Race and the Death Penalty
This article uses accounts of three murder trials of the 1950s to examine the role played in the criminal justice process by stereotyped and prejudicial attitudes towards women and people from ethnic minorities. All three defendants were executed although it is arguable that none of them should have been. Ruth Ellis's case highlights the gendered nature of criminal justice in the 1950s, especially in regard to domestic violence and the defence of…
A History of the Use of Groups in Probation Work
This article completes a two‐part history of groupwork in probation during the 20th Century. The first part traced the development of this aspect of probation work as an important part of the theory and practice of supervising probationers in the community. This second part purports to show the burgeoning significance and relevance of work with groups, and how it encouraged a more collaborative approach focused more specifically on the offence. M…
A History of the Use of Groups in Probation Work
In recent times, groupwork with people supervised by probation staff has become a central part of the government driven effective practice strategy: it has not always been so. For most of the history of the probation service, groupwork, with some notable exceptions, has been a peripheral activity sustained mainly by the energy and commitment of enthusiastic practitioners. Moreover, it has been a relatively neglected part of the story of probation…
Voluntary After‐Care and the Probation Service
In a Home Office funded study of the voluntary after‐care of short‐term prisoners, the authors found that this area of probation service activity had decreased markedly in volume and perceived priority. This article explores the history of voluntary after‐care; the reasons for its decline; the haracteristics and needs of potential users of this kind of service, and the manner in which it is still provided by some probation areas. Many short‐term …
Cognitive‐Behavioural Work with Offenders in the UK
Programmes premised on the cognitive‐behavioural theoretical model have become an important feature of work with people who offend, and the model itself has become a cornerstone of the ‘what works’ enterprise in the United Kingdom. This has not occurred without critical attention from commentators in both the academic and practice worlds. This article attempts to draw together the strands of that debate, and provide a critical account of the rece…
Social Exclusion and the Politics of Criminal Justice
This article deals with the relationship between the emerging criminal justice and social policies of the 1997 Labour government. It analyses the legacy inherited from the previous Conservative administrations and explores the extent to which policy making in the one area is now influenced by activity in the other. The authors suggest that the objects of criminal justice policy are most likely to be achieved when understood and developed within a…
Betrayal of Trust
Sexual Abuse by Men who Work with Children
This paper reports findings from an exploratory study on sexual abuse by men who work with children. As a first step towards filling a major gap in the relevant research literature, in-depth interviews were carried out with a small sample of men serving prison sentences for sexually abusing children in their trust. The paper focuses on their accounts of their life histories, including their experiences of prison treatment programmes, and provides…
Effective Probation Practice
Drawing on the authors' experience of research and practice in probation, the book provides a positive and realistic view of the contribution the probation service can make to the criminal justice sys
Soothsayers, training officers and a threatened service
There is a danger that the current government pressures on the Probation Service will result in training and staff development becoming merely mechanistic processes for ensuring conformity to centrally formulated policy. This paper whilst acknowledging the essential link between policy and staff development, argues for a broad definition of staff development which roots it firmly in practice and encompasses a concern with creativity, people's wel…
Moving Away from Help
The function of the probation service is the subject of increasing attention. There is much disagreement both within the service and amongst other interested parties, about the direction of future policy. The issue of compulsory attendance at day centres draws together the main issues being debated. This paper describes the short history of day centres in this field and suggests that during this period there has been a significant change in the p…
Moving Away from Social Work and Half Way Back Again
Research on social work in the criminal justice system was well represented in the social work literature until the 1990s. Since then, changes in the organisation, training and research base of probation practice, particularly in England and Wales, have all contributed to a separation between probation research and the mainstream social work research literature. However, recent probation research, by focusing on individual practice skills and on …
The impact of skills in probation work
This article reports on the results of a quasi-experimental study of practitioners’ skills in probation work. Videotaped interviews were produced by a group of probation officers and analysed by researchers using a checklist designed to identify the range of skills used in one-to-one supervision. Reconviction rates were found to be significantly lower among those whose supervisors were assessed as using a wider range of skills. The article also r…
What works in resettlement? Findings from seven Pathfinders for short-term prisoners in England and Wales
This article presents findings from the evaluation of Phase One of the resettlement ‘Pathfinder’, which was funded under the Home Office Crime Reduction Programme. Seven projects (four probation-led and three run by voluntary agencies) targeted the resettlement needs and/or offending behaviour of adults sentenced to prison for under 12 months, who are currently not subject to post-release supervision. All participants received help with welfare n…
Moving Away from Help
The function of the probation service is the subject of increasing attention. There is much disagreement both within the service and amongst other interested parties, about the direction of future policy. The issue of compulsory attendance at day centres draws together the main issues being debated. This paper describes the short history of day centres in this field and suggests that during this period there has been a significant change in the p…
Soothsayers, training officers and a threatened service
There is a danger that the current government pressures on the Probation Service will result in training and staff development becoming merely mechanistic processes for ensuring conformity to centrally formulated policy. This paper whilst acknowledging the essential link between policy and staff development, argues for a broad definition of staff development which roots it firmly in practice and encompasses a concern with creativity, people's wel…
Effective Probation Practice
Drawing on the authors' experience of research and practice in probation, the book provides a positive and realistic view of the contribution the probation service can make to the criminal justice sys
Betrayal of Trust
Sexual Abuse by Men who Work with Children
This paper reports findings from an exploratory study on sexual abuse by men who work with children. As a first step towards filling a major gap in the relevant research literature, in-depth interviews were carried out with a small sample of men serving prison sentences for sexually abusing children in their trust. The paper focuses on their accounts of their life histories, including their experiences of prison treatment programmes, and provides…
Voluntary After‐Care and the Probation Service
In a Home Office funded study of the voluntary after‐care of short‐term prisoners, the authors found that this area of probation service activity had decreased markedly in volume and perceived priority. This article explores the history of voluntary after‐care; the reasons for its decline; the haracteristics and needs of potential users of this kind of service, and the manner in which it is still provided by some probation areas. Many short‐term …
Cognitive‐Behavioural Work with Offenders in the UK
Programmes premised on the cognitive‐behavioural theoretical model have become an important feature of work with people who offend, and the model itself has become a cornerstone of the ‘what works’ enterprise in the United Kingdom. This has not occurred without critical attention from commentators in both the academic and practice worlds. This article attempts to draw together the strands of that debate, and provide a critical account of the rece…
Social Exclusion and the Politics of Criminal Justice
This article deals with the relationship between the emerging criminal justice and social policies of the 1997 Labour government. It analyses the legacy inherited from the previous Conservative administrations and explores the extent to which policy making in the one area is now influenced by activity in the other. The authors suggest that the objects of criminal justice policy are most likely to be achieved when understood and developed within a…
A History of the Use of Groups in Probation Work
In recent times, groupwork with people supervised by probation staff has become a central part of the government driven effective practice strategy: it has not always been so. For most of the history of the probation service, groupwork, with some notable exceptions, has been a peripheral activity sustained mainly by the energy and commitment of enthusiastic practitioners. Moreover, it has been a relatively neglected part of the story of probation…
A History of the Use of Groups in Probation Work
This article completes a two‐part history of groupwork in probation during the 20th Century. The first part traced the development of this aspect of probation work as an important part of the theory and practice of supervising probationers in the community. This second part purports to show the burgeoning significance and relevance of work with groups, and how it encouraged a more collaborative approach focused more specifically on the offence. M…
Getting out and staying out
Short-term prisoners have exceptionally high reconviction rates. Growing recognition of this and of deficiencies in prison-probation coordination has accelerated ‘resettlement’ of ex-prisoners up the penal agenda. This report looks at the effectiveness of these strategies in detail through three case studies of ‘Resettlement Pathfinders’ projects
Gender, Race and the Death Penalty
This article uses accounts of three murder trials of the 1950s to examine the role played in the criminal justice process by stereotyped and prejudicial attitudes towards women and people from ethnic minorities. All three defendants were executed although it is arguable that none of them should have been. Ruth Ellis's case highlights the gendered nature of criminal justice in the 1950s, especially in regard to domestic violence and the defence of…
What works in resettlement? Findings from seven Pathfinders for short-term prisoners in England and Wales
This article presents findings from the evaluation of Phase One of the resettlement ‘Pathfinder’, which was funded under the Home Office Crime Reduction Programme. Seven projects (four probation-led and three run by voluntary agencies) targeted the resettlement needs and/or offending behaviour of adults sentenced to prison for under 12 months, who are currently not subject to post-release supervision. All participants received help with welfare n…
Rehabilitation as Presented in British Film
Violent crime is one of the great subjects of world cinema; and oblique appeals for social reform – especially, for example, vis‐à‐vis capital punishment – also play a role in countless scores of films. However, explicit studies on the nature of self‐reform and the professional social services which might help effect it are few and far between. While still keeping an eye on the broader international context, in this article we examine four Britis…
Learning Lessons from Men Who Have Sexually Abused Children
The sexual abuse of children and young people by those who work with them is a global problem. Yet, our knowledge of this form of abuse remains limited. There is a dearth of research on offenders' accounts of how they perpetrated abuse within a paid work or voluntary sector environment. Thus, our focus here is on data collected during individual interviews with eight adult males who had been imprisoned for abusing a total of 35 children while in …
The impact of skills in probation work
This article reports on the results of a quasi-experimental study of practitioners’ skills in probation work. Videotaped interviews were produced by a group of probation officers and analysed by researchers using a checklist designed to identify the range of skills used in one-to-one supervision. Reconviction rates were found to be significantly lower among those whose supervisors were assessed as using a wider range of skills. The article also r…
Moving Away from Social Work and Half Way Back Again
Research on social work in the criminal justice system was well represented in the social work literature until the 1990s. Since then, changes in the organisation, training and research base of probation practice, particularly in England and Wales, have all contributed to a separation between probation research and the mainstream social work research literature. However, recent probation research, by focusing on individual practice skills and on …
Probation
This entry provides a broad definition of probation that encompasses its most common legal framework and its central purposes. These are placed within the context of the history of its international development and a critical account of how the concept has been transformed in England and Wales by increased political attention and accountability. In turn, the latter highlights the tensions between notions of public service and privatization
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Rehabilitation in Criminal Justice
Reducing the use of imprisonment. Lessons from Probation Day Centres in England and Wales
Day Reporting Centres as an alternative to prison have become a feature of the Criminal Justice Systems of most States in America. In contrast, Day Centres have virtually disappeared from the curricula of Probation services in England and Wales. In this paper we look back on the short history of day centre provision in this country and examine what can be learned from its different forms and assess the viability of reintroducing the concept as a …
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