The probation service's work with sex offenders: findings and implications of a thematic inspection
✍ Scribed by Ann Collier
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 141 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0952-9136
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✦ Synopsis
This article summarizes some of the key ®ndings of a report (HM Inspectorate of Probation, 1998) of an inspection of the work of the probation service in England and Wales with sex oenders. The inspection took place at a time of unprecedented public debate and concern about the nature and impact of sexual oending, but this focused attention on a few high-pro®le individuals rather than the majority of sexual oenders who assaulted victims that were known to them. For the purposes of the inspection, 10 probation areas were visited at the beginning of 1997 and a similar inspection programme was followed in each area, comprising observation of group work, examination of over 300 presentence court reports, a similar number of case ®les on oenders subject to supervision on probation orders and following release from prison and interviews with probation sta and representatives from a variety of other agencies. Although there had been research relating to community-based probation programmes previously in this country, this concentrated on group work programmes, which, in reality, are attended by a minority of sex oenders under supervision. This inspection examined and assessed for the ®rst time a far broader spectrum of the work of probation ocers with sex oenders. Copyright *