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Contrasting her own experiences as a probation officer in the late twentieth century with those of her mother in the Second World War, and drawing on examples of working with women who offend, and changing relationships with the police, Anne Worrall argues that the ‘brand’ of probation is resilient. Despite the fragmentation of probation work in the second decade of the twenty-first century, probation workers belong to an ‘honourable profession’ that has achieved much and continues to uphold vital skills, knowledge and values.
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The number of women in prison nearly trebled between 1993 and 2005. This has started to slowly reverse but, at almost 3900, there are still over 2000 more women in prison today than there were 20 years ago (Prison Reform Trust Bromley Briefings; Prison Reform Trust 2015, p. 4).
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Worrall, A. (2016). Probation in the Genes? Personal Reflections on the Fortunes and Misfortunes of an Honourable Profession. In: Vanstone, M., Priestley, P. (eds) Probation and Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59557-7_18
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