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Оleg Lisovets - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • INNOVATIVE PRACTICE OF SOCIO-EDUCATIONAL WORK IN Probation Service IN UKRAINE
    Social Work and Education, 2018
    Co-Authors: Оleg Lisovets
    Abstract:

    The implementation of the Probation Service in Ukraine has considerably activated the questions of working out the new approaches to the social work with different categories of the persons having the problems with the law. In this article we try to examine the essence and peculiarities of socio-educational work with the convicted persons as innovative practice for Probation Service and the efficiency of its implementation at present stage in Ukraine. The Probation Service we consider as the subject of the social work, because it includes the specific directions and functions, which are directed to the decision of the client’s social problems, incl. it provides the socio-educational work implementation for the purpose of the convicted persons’ correction. Having analyzed the experience of the Probation Service socio-educational work we can separate such main directions: consultative help, assistance in the job placement, attraction for study, participation in the breeding actions and socio-useful activity. We’ve formulated and characterized the basic possible problems and needs of the Probation subject. With the help of diagnostic methodic we’ve analyzed the basic problems and needs of Nizhyn and regional Probation Service department clients and proranged according to the level of town criminology the dynamic factors of the risk. The definition the client’s problems and needs is an outgoing and necessary stage of one of the basic and innovative technologies of the socio-educational work with the Probation subjects – the technology of the case-management. And one of the new practices in the Probation Service work the implementation of the Probation programs becomes. The program includes a series of measures aimed at correcting social behavior or its individual manifestations, forming socially favorable changes in the individual. The questions of the Probation Service personnel and methodical support in Ukraine need further scientific research, the interaction of the Probation institutions with the other social institutions for the clients’ problems decision.

Mike Nash - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Influencing or Influenced? - the Probation Service and Criminal Justice Policy
    Policy Networks in Criminal Justice, 2001
    Co-Authors: Mike Nash
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    Writing in 1976, King and Jarvis described the beginnings of the end of the Probation Service ‘as it was’. What had been described was a small, personal Service very much based on the individuality of Probation officers, a characteristic also noted by McWilliams (1987). This Service was not however without influence, despite its small size, and King and Jarvis (1976) record the strength of its ‘moral authority’. They also note that Probation officers were ‘sought-after’ witnesses, having ‘special skills’ and who were ‘central to government penal policy’ (74-5). Their relationships within the penal system in 1976 were described as having been forged with influential penal reform groups, such as the Howard League, philanthropic and influential sponsors and of course the magistracy.

  • deconstructing the Probation Service the trojan horse of public protection
    International Journal of The Sociology of Law, 2000
    Co-Authors: Mike Nash
    Abstract:

    To slightly interested outsiders, the survival of the Probation Service under four successive Conservative governments might be a little surprising. A working practice based essentially (at least in the public mind) on social casework appeared at odds with the tough law and order rhetoric of Margaret Thatcher. Yet more interested and informed observers would know that the feat of survival was perhaps not so surprising. Publicly tough measures were accompanied by a need to keep public expenditure costs down - even in the field of law and order. The Probation Service was to be a key agency in delivering the `alternative' to custody, an increasingly demanding punishment in the community. This necessitated significant change in the management and practice of the Probation Service, yet at the end of those four Conservative governments, the Probation Service was still relatively intact, recognizable to those who had known it for a long period of time. This article will focus on the changes since the election of a Labour government in 1997, changes which in many ways are far more radical than anything envisaged by the Conservatives. An argument will be presented which suggests that the ground for such far-reaching changes was cleared by previous Governments, but that it was the advent of the public protection agenda in its most recent incarnation which has facilitated what has been termed here the `deconstruction of the Probation Service'.

  • Deconstructing the Probation Service — the Trojan Horse of Public Protection
    International Journal of the Sociology of Law, 2000
    Co-Authors: Mike Nash
    Abstract:

    To slightly interested outsiders, the survival of the Probation Service under four successive Conservative governments might be a little surprising. A working practice based essentially (at least in the public mind) on social casework appeared at odds with the tough law and order rhetoric of Margaret Thatcher. Yet more interested and informed observers would know that the feat of survival was perhaps not so surprising. Publicly tough measures were accompanied by a need to keep public expenditure costs down - even in the field of law and order. The Probation Service was to be a key agency in delivering the `alternative' to custody, an increasingly demanding punishment in the community. This necessitated significant change in the management and practice of the Probation Service, yet at the end of those four Conservative governments, the Probation Service was still relatively intact, recognizable to those who had known it for a long period of time. This article will focus on the changes since the election of a Labour government in 1997, changes which in many ways are far more radical than anything envisaged by the Conservatives. An argument will be presented which suggests that the ground for such far-reaching changes was cleared by previous Governments, but that it was the advent of the public protection agenda in its most recent incarnation which has facilitated what has been termed here the `deconstruction of the Probation Service'.

  • Consumers without teeth: can Probation Service “clients” have a say in the Service they receive?
    International Journal of Public Sector Management, 1996
    Co-Authors: Mike Nash
    Abstract:

    Explores recent changes where, like other public sector organizations, the Probation Service did not escape the managerial revolution. The Service has become increasingly focused in its objectives on policies determined by the Home Office, policies which have tended to measure numerical data rather than quality of performance and effectiveness. Alongside the overwhelming need to demonstrate that something is being done (although not necessarily effectively), has come the adoption of a consumer perspective reflecting the wider charter movement. Yet to what extent can a consumer who is subject to a restrictive court order determine the level and quality of “Service” he or she is to receive? Argues that the Probation Service needs to move away from simple, numerical indicators of what has happened to ones which incorporate effectiveness. Suggests that the involvement of the consumer perspective will considerably enhance this process.

Harri Sarpavaara - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Causes of Change and No-Change in Substance Users’ Talk During Motivational Interviewing in the Probation Service in Finland
    International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology, 2016
    Co-Authors: Harri Sarpavaara
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    This article explores the beliefs regarding the causes of change and no-change of substance-using clients during motivational interviewing (MI) sessions in Probation Service context. The analyses are based on videotaped and transcribed data consisting of 98 MI sessions in 12 Probation Service offices in Finland from 2007 to 2009. The analysis relies on coding of client’s change-related talk utterances and qualitative semiotic framework. The results show that the clients attributed various causes to change and no-change. It seems that the sociocultural, psychological, biological, and contextual causes play an important role in substance users’ change talk and motivation to change. It is suggested that aspects of the social and contextual factors should not be overlooked in MI and other substance use treatment.

  • weekend as a symbolic sign in motivational counseling sessions in the Probation Service with substance abusers
    Time & Society, 2016
    Co-Authors: Harri Sarpavaara
    Abstract:

    This study explores the meanings that substance-abusing clients attach to weekend during motivational counseling sessions in Finnish Probation Service. By applying Peirce's semiotic theory of signs, this article studies “weekend” as a symbolic sign, and analyzes: (a) What kind of meanings the clients attach to it? (b) What does weekend mean to the clients' motivation to change? The analyses are based on videotaped and transcribed data consisting of 98 motivational counseling sessions. The results of the study display that the general meaning of weekend is constructed as an obstacle to change. Weekend stands for an excuse to drink, a need to drink, a desire to drink and incapability to change in the clients' talk. The results show that by applying the semiotic approach new and significant meaning constellations can be found in the client's change relevant talk during motivational counseling.

  • Significant Others in Substance Abusers’ Change Talk During Motivational Interviewing Sessions in the Finnish Probation Service
    Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2014
    Co-Authors: Harri Sarpavaara
    Abstract:

    AbstractAIMS – This article explores the meanings substance-abusing clients attach to family and friendships during motivational interviewing (MI) sessions in Probation Service. DATA – The analyses are based on videotaped and transcribed data consisting of 82 MI sessions. This database involves the first two counseling sessions of 41 client-counselor pairs. Sessions were videotaped in 12 Probation Service offices in Finland between 2007 and 2009. METHODS – The analysis relies on coding of client’s change talk utterances and qualitative semiotic framework. RESULTS – The meanings of the significant others were diverse from the point of view of the client’s motivation: family appeared as a support for change, an aspiration, a sufferer, or an obstacle to change; and friendship appeared as an obstacle to change, a surmounted obstacle, a cause to change, or a support to change. CONCLUSIONS - Significant others and their quality are important and diverse factors that promote or hinder change in substance abuser’ change talk. Thus, it is suggested that the meaning of significant others should not be overlooked in MI and other substance abuse treatment.

  • Use of metaphors in motivational interviewing sessions in the Probation Service.
    Communication & medicine, 2011
    Co-Authors: Harri Sarpavaara
    Abstract:

    This paper examines the use of metaphors in client-counsellor interaction in Motivational Interviewing counselling sessions in the context of Probation Service. Clients who participated in these counselling sessions and in this study had either an alcohol or drug abuse problem. My aim is to show how the interaction between the client and counsellor is shaped by reciprocal use of metaphors, and how the client’s change talk finds expression in metaphorical utterances. In these counselling sessions, the use of metaphors appeared in five types of interactions: 1) participants work with and develop together shared metaphors, 2) the client accepts the counsellor’s metaphorical description but does not use it him or herself, 3) either the client or the counsellor suggests an alternative metaphor, 4) the counsellor systematically ignores the client’s metaphor, and 5) the counsellor does not understand the meaning of the client’s metaphor. The analysis suggests that metaphorical utterances play a major part in the interaction between the client and the counsellor and in the client’s change talk. These findings support the notion that metaphor and the change are closely linked, and a metaphor may act as a vehicle of change.

Graham Smith - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Risk assessment and management at the interface between the Probation Service and psychiatric practice
    International Review of Psychiatry, 1997
    Co-Authors: Graham Smith
    Abstract:

    The Probation Service in England and Wales has outgrown its simple, supportive and principally diversional origins. While it retains many of its humanitarian and formative roles, both in the family and criminal courts, it has been required to devolve much of this in its purer forms to local authority social Services and specialize in work aimed at protecting the public from identified offenders, particularly the more serious offenders. Risk assessment is thus a prominent part of the task, initially in presentence reports, and for the most serious offenders, though adding to this base for advice on discretionary release for local review committees and the Parole Board. A growing area of work is in the recognition, assessment and management of the range of mental disorders suffered by many offenders. This has been acknowledged particularly by the contribution sought for the 1992 Department of Health and Home Office review of Services for mentally disordered offenders. The Probation Service has developed ski...

Jeannie Lumb - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.