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Pains of Probation: Effective Practice and Human Rights

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The conclusion is that by implementing these two perspectives, probation services may overcome the obstacles toward desistance and earn more legitimacy in the eyes of probation recipients.
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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.

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Mass probation: Toward a more robust theory of state variation in punishment

TL;DR: The authors analyzed whether mass probation developed in the same places, affecting the same demographic groups and driven by the same criminal justice trends, as mass imprisonment and found that mass probation was a unique state development, expanding in unusual places like Minnesota and Washington.
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Mass supervision, misrecognition and the ‘Malopticon’:

TL;DR: In this article, a review of recent studies that have used ethnographic meto-homographies to explore the penal character of mass supervision as a lived experience is presented. But the focus of this paper is not on mass supervision.
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The Cinderella Complex: punishment, society and community sanctions

TL;DR: This article explored the neglect of community sanctions (probation, parole etc.) in contemporary punishment and society scholarship, and sought to understand why this part of the penal field has not attracted significant attention from researchers, despite expansion and diversification in a variety of jurisdictions.
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The impact of supervision on the pains of community penalties in England and Wales: An exploratory study

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the pains experienced by nine offenders subjected to community and suspended sentence orders in an English Probation Trust between July 2013 and January 2014, arguing their importance for both deontological and consequentialist penal objectives.
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