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COUNTERBLAST: In Defence of Distance Learning

Brian Stout, +1 more
- 01 Dec 2006 - 
- Vol. 45, Iss: 5, pp 537-540
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This article is published in Howard Journal of Criminal Justice.The article was published on 2006-12-01. It has received 8 citations till now.

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Considerations for Faculty Preparing to Develop and Teach Online Criminal Justice Courses at Traditional Institutions of Higher Learning

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present their experience at their current (and in the case of the lead author a second) institution, addressing many issues that must be considered by faculty members before embarking on this type of time-intensive initiative.
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Probation and offender manager training: An argument for an integrated approach:

TL;DR: De Montfort University (DMU) carried out skills profile research to inform the proposed new probation training framework and curriculum as mentioned in this paper, which was used by the National Offender Management Service (NOMS).
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Stress, support and well-being as perceived by probation trainees

TL;DR: A study on stress, support and well-being was carried out with probation trainees (n = 110) as mentioned in this paper, which indicated that working as a probation trainee entailed high demands and higher levels of demands were experienced by trainees with children and those undertaking part-time work.
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Changes in Probation Training in England and Wales: The Probation Qualification Framework (PQF) Three Years on

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the personal experience of two lecturers delivering the academic program of the Probation Qualification Framework to students employed by a number of different Probation Trusts.
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Probation Education, Why the Hush? A Reply to Stout and Dominey's December 2006 Counterblast

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors made more general observations concerning the state of New Labour's probation training programme and about the current crises in which the service and its training arrangements have become embroiled.
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Some Personal Reflections on Probation Training

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the perceptions of trainee probation-of-professionals on the suitability of these training arrangements and argue that the current arrangements are too vocational in practice, and this is likely to continue, given the move towards delivery of the academic component through distance learning.
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COUNTERBLAST Probation: Dead, Dying or Poorly?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a method to solve the problem of homonymity of homophily in the context of homomorphic data, and no abstracts are available.