This paper explores cultural change and situated approaches to learning as a basis for understanding developments in the daily life of the probation organisation. These are highlighted in the concept of 'communities of practice' that describes learning in the everyday activities of practitioners' work. It is argued that the future can be changed by greater attention to context specific knowledg...

Sixteen habitual drunken offenders agreed to take disulfiram in liquid form under supervision as a condition of a probation order. They knew that failure to take medication, as with failure to observe any other condition of probation, could result in their being returned to court. Three defaulted but only two of the remainder committed further offences. Nine were entirely successful. At the end...

A large number of probationers with mental illness (PMIs) are under supervision in the United States. In this national survey, we compared the supervision approaches of a matched sample of 66 specialty mental health and 25 traditional probation agencies. The prototypic specialty agency has five key features that distinguish it from the traditional model: (a) exclusive mental health caseloads, (...

The relevance of the study is conditioned upon necessity wider implementation sentences alternative to imprisonment. It largely connected international commitments that Ukraine has made in process European integration. purpose determine economic and psychological conditions for functioning legal institution probation. research uses dialectical, comparative legal, systemic, Aristotelian, structu...

This research was conducted with the purpose of determining relationship between self-esteem and self-control individuals in probation system fulfill their obligations Ankara Probation Office. In scope study, information about socio-demographic status, family characteristics, parental education level, crime substance use exposure to violence, type 520 included obtained. It determined that there...