Rehabilitation and Probation in England and Wales, 1876-1962 [Paperback]

Rehabilitation and Probation in England and Wales, 1876-1962draws on a wide range of archive material to describe the arrival of a modern probation service. Focusing on the first half of the twentieth century, it describes the debates, conflicts and compromises that resulted in the creation of a state sponsored, centrally controlled, professional, secular, social work and psychological based agency. Following a chronological structure, Ray Gard explores the arrival of the so-called period of 'penal optimism', showing how rehabilitation arrived in the courts of England and Wales. The book uses archive and original material to give voice to those devising and implementing policy, revealing an uneven path to a modern probation system.Raymond Gardis a former probation officer and independent scholar based in Germany.

1. The mission to the Police Court
2. The first probation officers, probation 1907-1914
3. The Home Office takes control as treatment arrives, probation 1914-1928
4. The creation of A fully public service... , probation 1928-1938
5. The emergence of a modern service, probation 1938-1948
6. Probation, social work and psychoanalysis, into the 1950s.
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