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This article derives from the opening speech I made at Napo's Centenary Conference in July 2012. It considers innovation in relation to probation practice, exploring examples from the past in order to review and analyse issues in the present and to look ahead to the challenges that lie ahead for probation.

The electronic back catalogue of the Probation Journal (1929—present) has recently become available via the publisher's website (http://prb.sagepub.com/ archive/). This article provides a descriptive and analytical critique of portrayals of women probation officers and women offenders by drawing from the range of editions of the Probation Journal.

Abstract:The probation service has undergone a period of upheaval over the recent past. There has been considerable coverage in the literature about the structural reorganisation of the service and the implementation of policy and practice changes, particularly in relation to the 'What Works' initiative. However, there has been little discussion about the changing gender composition of the service and, in particular, the rise in the proportion of female staff. This article provides a descriptive overview and applies a gendered analysis, in order to gain a more comprehensive and in‐depth understanding of these organisational changes.

This comment piece outlines the genesis of the Napo Archive and the process of its establishment at the Institute of Criminology at the University of Cambridge. It outlines the scope that these resources offer for researchers, students, and for those with a more general interest in probation. It also points to the unique vantage points that these materials could offer in relation to investigations into the historical development of probation policy and practice, and the emergence of Napo as a professional organisation and subsequently as a trade union.

This title brings together international research on evidence-based skills and practices in probation and youth justice in the public, private and voluntary sectors. Wide-ranging in scope, it also covers effective approaches to working with ethnic minority service users, women and young people

This book focuses on developments since the publication of the 2007 Corston Report into women and criminal justice. The challenges of working with women in the current climate are also explored, translating lessons from good practice to policy development and recommending future directions arising from the 'Transforming Rehabilitation' plans.

Viewed as a culmination of broader neoliberal governance within the UK, this paper examines the impact of the government's Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) agenda on day-to-day working cultures at the frontline of probation work. TR has brought with it extensive structural and cultural changes to probation work in England and Wales. Once a single public-sector service with a social welfare ethos of 'advise, assist and befriend', probation has been dismantled, partially privatised and culturally transformed into a collection of fragmented, target-driven organisations, divided according to risk and with an official rhetoric emphasising public protection. The implications of TR are now starting to surface. While much of this attention has focused on the impact of TR on both the supervision of offenders and in terms of public protection, less research has been conducted on how these organisational changes have impacted upon staff. Drawing upon findings from qualitative research, this article suggests that deepening cuts, precarious working environments, and increasingly unmanageable caseloads inflict upon staff what we consider to be a pervasive form of systemic workplace harm, resulting in mental health issues, stress, and professional dissatisfaction.

The Probation Service has experienced massive changes during the past 10 years, including the way in which its probation officers are trained. Whether or not the espoused intention of this latter change was to introduce a `new breed' of officer more versed in control than care, the three studies reported here all demonstrate the same finding, namely that individuals enter the training to work with people, and that they continue to achieve most satisfaction from this. The studies focus variously on newly qualified officers, those in training, and those applying for training. This article reviews these studies and offers a critical analysis of their key findings.

This collection offers a comprehensive review of the origins, scale and breadth of the privatisation and marketisation revolution across the criminal justice system. Leading academics and researchers assess the consequences of market-driven criminal justice in a wide range of contexts, from prison and probation to policing, migrant detention, rehabilitation and community programmes. Using economic, sociological and criminological perspectives, illuminated by accessible case studies, they consider the shifting roles and interactions of the public, private and voluntary sectors. As privatisation, outsourcing and the impact of market cultures spread further across the system, the authors look ahead to future developments and signpost the way to reform in a 'post-market' criminal justice sphere