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This practitioner response reflects on Peter Raynor's insights into the role probation has played in sentencing over several decades. It considers some current challenges for probation staff in court, including speedy justice initiatives and the changing role of reports. This article conceptualises current probation practice within a continuum of person-centred practice which, although modernised, is informed by the traditional probation principles of advise, assist, and befriend.

This article is a response to Tracy Almond's article 'Asset: an assessment tool that safeguards or stigmatizes young offenders?' Almond takes the position that Asset, the Youth Justice Board assessment tool, is poorly designed, labels young people unhelpfully, and that the criminal justice system (CJS)'s approach to dealing with young people is increasingly out of step with the social care approach. She explores developments in alternative approaches to working with young people which would be more ethical, and concludes that Asset is structurally inadequate and morally unsound.

Contemporary rock criticism appears to be firmly tied to the past. The specialist music press valorise rock music of the 1960s and 1970s, and new emerging artists are championed for their 'retro' sounding music by journalists who compare the sound of these new artists with those included in the established 'canon' of rock music. This article examines the narrative tropes of authenticity and nostalgia that frame the retrospective focus of this contemporary rock writing, and most significantly, the maintenance of the rock canon within contemporary popular culture. The article concludes by suggesting that while contemporary rock criticism is predominately characterised by nostalgia, this nostalgia is not simply a passive romanticism of the past. Rather, this nostalgia fuels a process of active recontextualisation within contemporary popular culture.