Mapping the interface between contemporary risk-focused policy and frontline enforcement practice

Ugwudike, Pamela

doi:10.1177/1748895811401975

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“…Early prognosticators predicted "the technology could replace the probation officer" (Friel & Vaughn, 1986, p. 13) or lead to undesirable changes in the day-to-day work of practitioners, and hence the organization of human supervision (cf. Corbett & Marx, 1991;Lilly, 1989), including its focus on the welfare of individuals (Ugwudike, 2011). Reflecting on initial efforts to integrate EM into the day-to-day practice of probation work, observed that:…”

Section: Penological Driftmentioning

confidence: 99%

Specialization and the Use of GPS for Domestic Violence by Pretrial Programs: Findings from a National Survey of U.S. Practitioners

Gur

Ibarra

Erez

2016

Journal of Technology in Human Services

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Tools that facilitate the electronic monitoring of criminal justice populations are becoming widespread and multifaceted as they are adapted for a range of purposes and offender categories. In the past two decades, justice agencies across the United States have incorporated global positioning systems (GPS) to enforce no-contact orders in cases involving domestic violence (DV) or intimate partner violence (IPV). The current study surveyed a national (U.S.) sample of representatives (N ¼ 114) from agencies administering pretrial programs that use GPS following DV-related charges. While all respondents are involved in using GPS for DV, analysis shows that some also use a range of other tools and monitor diverse portfolios of offenders; we report on relationships between the number of technologies used, populations monitored, attitudes, and practices. The article discusses the importance of giving due attention to the role of specialization in remotely supervising clients and providing them with services.

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Section: Penological Driftmentioning

confidence: 99%

Specialization and the Use of GPS for Domestic Violence by Pretrial Programs: Findings from a National Survey of U.S. Practitioners

Gur

Ibarra

Erez

2016

Journal of Technology in Human Services

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“…Although studies which do not incorporate observation of practice are routinely used to illuminate ‘practitioner perspectives’ (e.g. Annison et al, 2008; McNeill, 2001; Robinson and Burnett, 2007; Ugwudike, 2011), it would nevertheless therefore be unwise to attach too much significance to these findings. Additionally, offenders on the receiving end of probation work would undoubtedly have their own ‘perspectives on practice’.…”

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confidence: 99%

Practitioner perspectives on risk: Using governmentality to understand contemporary probation practice

Hardy

2013

European Journal of Criminology

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This article reports findings from a study investigating if, how and why concerns regarding risk are impacting on probation work in England and Wales from the practitioner perspective. It begins with a review of key debates regarding how 'the rise of risk' has come about and with what effects. I then briefly explain what the study entailed-its aims and objectives, methods and theoretical framework (governmentality). Findings from the study are then presented. These are at odds with the 'critical consensus' that risk has dramatically altered the nature of practice. The article concludes with discussion of the implications of these findings for ongoing debates regarding the significance of risk in probation practice.

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“…literature, which in turn feeds into compliance rates. As Ugwudike (2011) suggests, fairness and legitimacy in the supervisory relationship encourages compliance, and barriers to compliance need to be overcome through supervision that is responsive to the wider issues affecting offenders. In two studies of the views of offending and desistance amongst young people aged 13-33 (Barry, 2006b;Cruickshank and Barry, 2008), it was found that three particular interventions were the most promising in terms of encouraging desistance: -offering constructive activities and practical advice for clients about employment, housing and relationships, rather than focusing on offending behaviour in a vacuum;…”

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The Failure of Recall to Prison: Early Release, Front-Door and Back-Door Sentencing and the Revolving Prison Door in Scotland

Weaver¹,

Tata²,

Munro³

et al. 2012

European Journal of Probation

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This article seeks to explain the reasons for the sharp rise in prison recall rates in Scotland. It argues that recall practices need to be understood not as a technical corner of the justice system, but as part of a wider analysis of the politics of sentencing and release policy. While there are sound reasons for a policy of 'early release' (incentivizing good behavior and enabling the resettlement of prisoners), in practice early release has increasingly been used as a tool to try to limit the growth in the custodial population. Unable to control prison numbers through the 'front door' (judicial sentencing and bail/remand), successive governments have increasingly relied on early release as a surreptitious way of, in effect, re-sentencing prisoners. We argue that this political strategy is ultimately self-defeating, not least in feeding public cynicism about the penal system and community supervision in particular. This article reviews the changing legislative, policy and practice landscape of the regulation of non-compliance and recall practice, and draws on the desistance literature to illustrate how offender-supervisor relationships can be undermined by recall policies which threaten the legitimacy of both the supervisory relationship and the conditions of supervision orders.

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Mapping the interface between contemporary risk-focused policy and frontline enforcement practice

Cited by 22 publications

References 31 publications

Specialization and the Use of GPS for Domestic Violence by Pretrial Programs: Findings from a National Survey of U.S. Practitioners

Specialization and the Use of GPS for Domestic Violence by Pretrial Programs: Findings from a National Survey of U.S. Practitioners

Practitioner perspectives on risk: Using governmentality to understand contemporary probation practice

The Failure of Recall to Prison: Early Release, Front-Door and Back-Door Sentencing and the Revolving Prison Door in Scotland

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