Basics of qualitative research: Grounded theory procedures and techniques

Transforming Qualitative Data: Description, Analysis, and Interpretation

Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration. By Devah Pager. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xiii+248. $25.00.

Human Deviance, Social Problems, and Social Control.

Age and Crime.

This article explores the experience of offenders while under probation supervision and analyses the "pains of probation" in connection to rehabilitation aspirations. The article has two main parts. In the first part of the article, the experiences of probationers are examined using thematic analysis, and eight different pains of probation are identified. In the second part of the article, these pains of probation are examined from two different perspectives: human rights and the Good Lives Model. The conclusion is that these two perspectives support each other and can help reduce the frustrations and deprivations experienced by individuals on probation. By implementing these two perspectives, probation services may overcome the obstacles toward desistance and earn more legitimacy in the eyes of probation recipients.

Pains of Probation: Effective Practice and Human Rights

Probation in Europe

This article explores what the existing literature has to say about what is most important in the probation supervision: staff characteristics, staff skills or programmes? In broader historical per...

What matters most in probation supervision: Staff characteristics, staff skills or programme?:

The theme of this article was developed at a conference organized by Conference Permanente Europeenne de la Probation (CEP) together with the Ministry of Justice of Estonia which took place in Tallinn, September 2007 The title of the conference was `Unity and Diversity in Probation' Within this context, this article aims to examine issues and dilemmas in evaluating probation effectiveness in different jurisdictions According to the published aims of various probation services, probation systems in EU countries could be divided into four main types: probation services based on promoting community measures and sanctions; probation services based on the model of assisting the judiciary; probation services based on the rehabilitation model/public protection; and probation services based on a punishment or enforcement model These different types require different criteria for evaluating probation effectiveness, but each criterion has some important risks, which need to be carefully assessed The article's 

An exploration of the purposes and outcomes of probation in European jurisdictions

This article is based on an ethnographic study involving 58 Roma and Romanian participants who were released from Jilava Prion in Romania between January and July 2015. The methodology involved interviews, observation, questionnaires, and photovoice. The findings seem to suggest that most of the factors associated with desistance and reentry in the literature are relevant to the ex-prisoner's experiences. The main contribution of this article is the observation that these factors come into play at different times and in different stages of the reentry process. Five reentry stages were identified in this study: prerelease-anticipation, recovery and reunion, activation, consolidation, and relapse. The aim of the article is to describe this reentry process as the participants experienced it. Theoretical and practice implications are discussed.

Ioan Durnescu

Papers

Pains of Probation: Effective Practice and Human Rights

Probation in Europe

What matters most in probation supervision: Staff characteristics, staff skills or programme?:

An exploration of the purposes and outcomes of probation in European jurisdictions

The Five Stages of Prisoner Reentry: Toward a Process Theory.