Probation Practice and the New Penology

John Deering’s research monograph, Probation Practice and the New Penology: Practitioner Reflections, provides a fascinating and underexplored area of research that begins to bridge a much-needed chasm between debates about probation practice and contemporary criminological theory. Based on a series of 51 in-depth interviews with staff working across two different probation areas, this book explores their attitudes, perceptions and reflections of working in the criminal justice system in the twenty-first century. The focus of Deering’s research is on how probation workers navigate, negotiate, resist and respond to the changing dynamics of the new penology. After a general introduction, the book opens with a chapter that explores the contours of the new penology and the culture of new public managerialism that has shaped the recent history and current focus of the probation service. Whilst most of this discussion will be familiar to those working and researching in the field of

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