This literature review was commissioned by the Scottish Executive's Social Work Services
Inspectorate in order to support the work of the 21st Century Social Work Review Group …

Brangan (2013) Brangan, L.(2013). A framework for comparative research on supervision?
Offender Supervision in Europe, blog-site. Retrieved from http://www. offendersupervision …

This paper aims to advance the case for a more fully interdisciplinary understanding of
offender rehabilitation, partly as a means of shedding light upon and moving beyond …

In an influential article published in the British Journal of Social Work in 1979, Anthony
Bottoms and Bill McWilliams proposed the adoption of a 'non-treatment paradigm'for …

For decades, the relationship between the officer and offender (variously labelled as the
'casework relationship', the 'supervisory relationship'or 'one-to-one work') was the main …

This report provides a literature review on desistance from crime which explores the
purposes of offender management; understanding and supporting desistance; desistance …

This book aims to make the case for and provide some of the resources necessary to
reimagine rehabilitation for twenty-first-century criminal justice. Outlining an approach to …

This article draws on the findings of an ethnographic study of social enquiry and sentencing
in the Scottish courts. It explores the nature of the practice of social enquiry (that is, of social …

This article addresses the extent to which the concept of 'new penology'is helpful in
understanding penal currents, particularly as they relate to the older paradigms of retribution …

This paper is based on a presentation entitled 'What Works in Probation', delivered to an
Invitational Conference for Directors of Probation Services in Europe organised by the …