PROBATION AND AFTER‐CARE SOME ASPECTS OF CASEWORK

In: The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 47-57

Abstract

The Editorial comment in the 1969 issue of this journal referred to the number of Government reports that appeared in 1968, and which could 'drastically affect social policy and the machinery of local and central government', especially as these issues relate to the treatment of offenders. One of the issues raised in this editorial was 'whether or not the after‐care undertaken by the probation service should expand into family and community support; or, on the contrary, whether family and community support, as envisaged by Seebohm, should expand into the after‐care of individuals leaving institutions'.This paper seeks to comment generally on some of these issues against the following broad background of:

The present 'setting' in which probation casework is carried out, the forces which influence this setting, and some of the implications which may arise from this.
The application of 'generic' principles of casework in connection with the particular needs of some delinquents, and the need for further thinking in this area.