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Making desistance real: implementing a desistance focused approach in a community rehabilitation company (CRC)
- Authors:
- KEMSHALL Hazel, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, 68(3), 2021, pp.347-364.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Desistance is now a key focus for probation practice in the United Kingdom. However, how to implement desistance in the workplace has remained challenging, particularly in the absence of practice guidance. This article presents the experience of ‘making desistance real’ in the context of Community Rehabilitation Companies. ‘Identity shift’ is presented as a core component of the desistance approach adopted, and practice designed to support services users to transition to a pro-social identity and their ‘best life’ is presented. The article examines changes in assessment processes and tools, outlines desistance informed interventions, and the engagement of practitioners in delivering desistance. (Edited publisher abstract)
Risks, rights and justice: understanding and responding to youth risk
- Author:
- KEMSHALL Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Youth Justice, 8(1), April 2008, pp.21-37.
- Publisher:
- Sage
This article reviews current social policy and penal policy responses to risk, with particular attention to how policies of responsibilisation have implications for rights leading to an increased emphasis upon conditional rights. Responsibilisation has also framed risk policies as increasingly preventative (and potentially exclusionary) and the limits of this "risk factorology" approach are examined. The article concludes with a brief review of the implications for current youth justice practice and the possibility for practitioner resistance to current policy responses to "problematic" and "risky" youth.
Defensible decisions for risk: or 'it's the doers wot get the blame'
- Author:
- KEMSHALL Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, 45(2), June 1998, pp.67-72.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Risk assessment is becoming ever more central to the probation task, with front-line probation staff becoming increasingly aware of their accountability for mistakes in assessing and managing dangerous offenders. Argues that the complex and indeterminate nature of risk assessment places an unfair pressure on practitioners who should expect a greater degree of managerial responsibility for front-line practice.
Risk assessment: fuzzy thinking or 'decisions in action'?
- Author:
- KEMSHALL Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, 34(1), April 1996, pp.2-7.
- Publisher:
- Sage
In a range of tasks from pre-sentence reports to the oversight of long-term prisoners on licence, probation officers are asked to predict and manage future behaviour. How is risk defined and operationalised by probation staff and upon what knowledge base and value systems do understandings of risk rest. This article uses the initial findings of a recent research study to sketch how probation practitioners gauge and rationalise their risk assessments.
Risk assessment: seven sins of omission
- Author:
- KEMSHALL Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, December 1995, pp.199-201.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Responding positively to the author's article on 'Risk in Probation Practice' (June 1995). Suggests a number of key areas of concern in weighing dangerousness, emphasises the importance of clear information about past behaviour, and suggests seven awkward but essential questions which can aid assessment.
Risk in probation practice: the hazards and dangers of supervision
- Author:
- KEMSHALL Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, June 1995, pp.67-72.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Examines the recent emergence of the concept of risk within probation practice and offers a framework for risk assessment, together with suggestions to support the introduction of new risk management procedures.
Feminist probation practice: making supervision meaningful
- Authors:
- WRIGHT Lisa, KEMSHALL Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, July 1994, pp.73-80.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Until more relevant provision becomes available, traditional one-to-one supervision through the probation order is likely to remain the mainstay of probation practice with women. Drawing upon a survey of practitioner and consumer views, argues that if the Probation Service is to be a positive resource for women, supervision needs to take account of the differences in women's offending and women's lives. The majority of the women probationers surveyed considered that they had received a worthwhile service but those who had engaged in woman-centred supervision valued probation most highly. Offers proposals towards the 'synergetic' integration of feminine values into gender-conscious service.
Quality: friend or foe?
- Author:
- KEMSHALL Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, October 1993, pp.122-126.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Provides a critical analysis of the concept of Quality, a key ideological term in the present push to a market economy base for the public sector and its current use by the Probation Service. Warns against an uncritical acceptance of a term that may well be a 'Trojan Horse' in the debate between finance led values and professional ones. An alternative view of the term Quality, and its potential to unify the service in pursuit for effectiveness in dealing with offenders is offered.
Are we all accountants now?
- Author:
- KEMSHALL Hazel
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, March 1993, pp.2-8.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Argues that the mere acquisition of accountancy skills by managers in order to respond to government pressures on cost effectiveness will not be enough. Rather, the present economic and political climate requires managers and staff to concern themselves with clear planning, commitment to quality, and the effectiveness of all aspects of the work of the Service. A critical analysis of the usefulness of present performance indicators in contributing to this agenda is offered, particularly in respect of issues of effectiveness, quality, anti-discrimination and staff morale. Concludes by suggesting a formula for change in management practice and a framework for measuring both efficiency and effectiveness.