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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

A fork in the road: probation unification in England and Wales two years on
Matthew Millings, Lol Burke, Harry Annison, Nicola Carr, Gwen Robinson & Eleanor Surridge, 2025, Probation Journal
DOI: 10.1177/02645505241303755
Type: article
Lessons for public management reform
Harry Annison, Nicola Carr, Daniel Birungi, Gwen Robinson, Matthew Millings & Lol Burke, 2025
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/PP0097
Type: report
Rehabilitating probation: response to sentencing review consultation
Harry Annison, Matthew Millings, Lol Burke, Nicola Carr, Gwen Robinson & Eleanor Surridge, 2025
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/PP0083
Type: report
Rehabilitating Probation: Submission to HMIP Consultation on a National Inspection
Matthew Millings, Harry Annison, Lol Burke, Nicola Carr, Gwen Robinson & Elly Surridge, 2025
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/PP0084
Type: report
Rehabilitation and Resettlement: Ending the Cycle of Reoffending
Matthew Millings, Harry Annison, Lol Burke, Nicola Carr, Gwen Robinson & Elly Surridge, 2025
DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/PP0085
Type: report