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Rehabilitating Probation

Project overview

Rehabilitating Probation: Rebuilding culture, identity and legitimacy in a reformed public service is a three-year (2022-2024) ESRC funded research project that aims to examine the implementation, experiences and consequences of a significant and unprecedented programme of public service reform that has brought formerly outsourced probation services back into the public sector.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Harry Annison

Professor of Criminal Justice

Research interests

  • Penal politics
  • Probation and parole
  • Narratives, storylines and penal policy
Connect with Harry

Email: H.Annison@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Whose confidence? Regional leaders’ perspectives on building confidence in a reconfigured probation service
Gwen Robinson, Harry Annison, Lol Burke, Nicola Carr, Matthew Millings & Eleanor Surridge, 2023, Criminology & Criminal Justice
DOI: 10.1177/17488958231218571
Type: article
A necessary but painful journey
Matthew Millings, Lol Burke, Harry Annison, Nicola Carr, Gwen Robinson & Eleanor Surridge, 2023, Probation Journal, 70(4), 331-349
DOI: 10.1177/02645505231182822
Type: article
Making good? A study of how senior policy makers narrate policy reversal
Harry Annison, Lol Burke, Nicola Carr, Matthew Millings, Gwen Robinson & Eleanor Surridge, 2023, British Journal of Criminology
DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azad054
Type: article