Evidence versus politics in British probation

• Twenty years ago, the Probation Service in England and Wales was widely regarded as world-leading. • Since then it has been weakened by a series of politically driven and poorly evidenced changes. • A badly flawed and ideologically driven privatisation programme implemented in 2015 has done seriou...

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Autor principal: Raynor, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Prisons and Probation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7409932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34173561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsiml.2020.100029
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description • Twenty years ago, the Probation Service in England and Wales was widely regarded as world-leading. • Since then it has been weakened by a series of politically driven and poorly evidenced changes. • A badly flawed and ideologically driven privatisation programme implemented in 2015 has done serious damage. • The recent decision to end this failed programme is an opportunity to redesign better.
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spelling pubmed-74099322020-08-07 Evidence versus politics in British probation Raynor, Peter Forensic Science International: Mind and Law Prisons and Probation • Twenty years ago, the Probation Service in England and Wales was widely regarded as world-leading. • Since then it has been weakened by a series of politically driven and poorly evidenced changes. • A badly flawed and ideologically driven privatisation programme implemented in 2015 has done serious damage. • The recent decision to end this failed programme is an opportunity to redesign better. The Author. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020-11 2020-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7409932/ /pubmed/34173561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsiml.2020.100029 Text en © 2020 The Author Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7409932/
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