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The Management of Community Justice Services in Scotland: Policy-Making and the Dynamics of Central and Local Control

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For observers of, and those involved with, the Probation Service in England and Wales, this is a bleak time. As the Ministry of Justice pushes through reforms which will see 70% of Probation Trusts’ work outsourced to voluntary and private bidders on a system of payment by results (PbR) and morale in the Probation Service is at an alltime low (see for example Hedderman, 2013; Phillips, 2014; Robinson, 2013; Senior, 2013), a time when probation in England and Wales was underpinned by social work values and principles seems a distant memory.

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    Martin Wasik (Emeritus Professor of Law) & Sotirios Santatzoglou (Emeritus Professor of Law) (Emeritus Professor of Law) &  (Emeritus Professor of Law)

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Morrison, K. (2015). The Management of Community Justice Services in Scotland: Policy-Making and the Dynamics of Central and Local Control. In: Wasik, M., Santatzoglou, S. (eds) The Management of Change in Criminal Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137462497_9

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