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Lecturer in Criminology @edinburghnapier. Community penalties, partnership, restorative justice, penal policy. He/him. The Frank Drebin of academic misconduct.
Jul 27, 2018 27 tweets 9 min read
So the part-privatisation of #probation as originally conceived is over. @benmatthewsed made the foolhardy mistake of asking for my thoughts so going to post a thread...
theguardian.com/society/2018/j… 1/ This was a terrible idea and seemingly every academic and practitioner in probation thought so. The marketisation was meant to use a "Payment by Results" system similar to another of Grayling's Greatest Hits, The Work Programme...