{"title":"Parole practises in Lithuania: Factors predicting court decisions","authors":"Liubovė Jarutienė","doi":"10.1177/20662203211056472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20662203211056472","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines factors that predict parole decisions in Lithuanian courts. The study state has a two-stage discretionary parole system where applicants are first evaluated through a parole board hearing, and the board’s decision is then reviewed in court. The study sample included 360 court verdicts from various court institutions. Intergroup comparisons suggest that parole boards tend to grant parole more often than courts. The results of regression analysis suggest that courts weigh heavily on the decision made by the parole board as well as the number of misconduct reports, time left to serve and previous parole or probation violations.","PeriodicalId":44523,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Probation","volume":"13 1","pages":"301 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44402007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Punitiveness of electronic monitoring: Perception and experience of an alternative sanction","authors":"M. Richter, Barbara Ryser, Ueli Hostettler","doi":"10.1177/20662203211038489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20662203211038489","url":null,"abstract":"Electronic monitoring (EM) serves as an alternative sanction to incarceration. An important aspect that remains only scarcely debated in the literature is EM’s punitiveness and, more specifically, exactly how punitive EM is in comparison to different forms of incarceration. Responding to this gap, we propose a systematic meta-analysis of relevant studies that scrutinizes and compares different studies on EM and its punitive effects (or perceptions of its degree of punitiveness) in relation to incarceration. Ultimately, there is no simple and straightforward answer: EM’s level of punitiveness differs with the various sociodemographic variables of respondents included in the studies and the various characteristics of the penal system. It is necessary to assess the degree of punitiveness of EM to determine the conditions under and terms with which it should be applied, for example, as a humane substitute for incarceration or as an additional pain of the penal system.","PeriodicalId":44523,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Probation","volume":"13 1","pages":"262 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42661748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Released from foreign detention: Examining reoffending rates among returning Dutch detainees in the Netherlands","authors":"Matthias van Hall, Laura Cleofa-van Der Zwet","doi":"10.1177/20662203211033793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20662203211033793","url":null,"abstract":"At least 1,900 Dutch detainees are detained abroad yearly. They are housed in foreign detention because they are accused of having committed a criminal offence in a country that is not their country of residence. This study used data regarding Dutch detainees who were supervised by the International Office of the Dutch Probation Service to examine detainees’ background characteristics and their offending behaviour after returning to the Netherlands. The findings show that 23% of the Dutch detainees reoffended within 2 years of release from foreign detention. Furthermore, several background characteristics, such as their age at release from foreign detention, are related to reoffending behaviour.","PeriodicalId":44523,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Probation","volume":"13 1","pages":"242 - 261"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48100666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Wendy Fitzgibbon and John Lea, Privatising Justice: The Security Industry, War and Crime Control","authors":"José M. López-Riba","doi":"10.1177/20662203211034011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20662203211034011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44523,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Probation","volume":"13 1","pages":"204 - 206"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/20662203211034011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45393479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Glenn D Walters, Closing the Integration Gap in Criminology. The Case for Criminological Thinking","authors":"M. Herzog-Evans","doi":"10.1177/20662203211034012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20662203211034012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44523,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Probation","volume":"13 1","pages":"199 - 203"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/20662203211034012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45021374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experts of the streets: The thoughts of experts by experience with a history of crime and substance abuse on working as a team with professionals","authors":"J. Lindström, T. Rantanen","doi":"10.1177/20662203211028250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20662203211028250","url":null,"abstract":"Expertise by experience has become increasingly significant in the various fields of social work. This study examines narratives told by experts by experience who have undergone an educational expert-by-experience program for people with a history of crime and substance abuse, with the main focus on the participants’ accounts of their expertise and how it is created when working as a team with a professional. The stories create an image of the expert by experience as an agent who is both an interpreter and an advocate advancing the mutual understanding between the client and the professional as well as someone who promotes the client’s status within the service system. However, the experts’ dual role makes it difficult for them to fully recognize their status and roles in the professional organizations. All in all, the study shows that expertise by experience has much use in social and personal services, including probation.","PeriodicalId":44523,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Probation","volume":"13 1","pages":"226 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/20662203211028250","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49085820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mentoring: Can you get too much of a ‘good thing’? Proposing enhancements to the ‘effectiveness framework’ the England and Wales Prison and Probation Service","authors":"Kevin Wong, Rachel Horan","doi":"10.1177/20662203211024105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20662203211024105","url":null,"abstract":"Opt-in, open-ended mentoring for people with convictions, allowing them to dip in and out of services without sanction arguably offers a service configuration to match the paradigm of the zig-zag, nomadic desistance journey. Balancing supporting individual’s agency while avoiding fostering dependency is tricky. What are the conditions which support the former and avoid the latter? We aim to answer this question by drawing on the lived experience of mentees and mentors collected during the evaluation of a mentoring scheme in England. We consider whether mentoring is unequivocally a ‘good thing’. Despite its ubiquity, the evidence for its effectiveness is mixed. We suggest that it is possible to get too much mentoring, and advance the evidence base in the United Kingdom and internationally in other jurisdictions by proposing enhancements to the ‘effectiveness framework’ set out by the prison and probation service in England and Wales.","PeriodicalId":44523,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Probation","volume":"13 1","pages":"207 - 225"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/20662203211024105","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43308849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Women offenders who served community sentences: A view from Catalonia","authors":"C. Vasilescu","doi":"10.1177/20662203211017061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20662203211017061","url":null,"abstract":"Unlike in other jurisdictions, in Catalonia there has been no specific evaluation of women’s experiences regarding community sentences. The purpose of this article is to contribute to filling this gap by conducting qualitative research in Barcelona and Girona to analyse the experiences of women serving community sentences. To this end, 23 semi-structured interviews with women offenders are analysed. The results follow the trend found in research conducted in other jurisdictions and show that women have multiple issues, responsibilities and needs in comparison with men, and what works with female offenders is different from what works with male offenders with regard to supervision style, relationship with professionals and unpaid work or therapy environments. The findings make it possible to identify alternative responses that offer appropriate support and interventions to address women’s underlying problems and reduce reoffending. The article underscores the importance of listening to women’s voices in order to achieve a gender-sensitive criminal justice system.","PeriodicalId":44523,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Probation","volume":"13 1","pages":"178 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/20662203211017061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49311995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Andrade, A. R. Cruz, Olga Cunha, R. Gonçalves, A. C. Rodrigues
{"title":"Community sanctions: Offenders’ perceptions about their appropriateness","authors":"J. Andrade, A. R. Cruz, Olga Cunha, R. Gonçalves, A. C. Rodrigues","doi":"10.1177/20662203211014161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20662203211014161","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzed offenders’ perceptions about distinct sanctions and their adequacy for different crimes, checking if these ideas apply to their crime. We covered a total of 163 adult offenders who were sanctioned with a non-custodial order. The results show that participants tended to express a punitive attitude toward crime, apart from their offenses. Participants who committed driving or drug trafficking offenses were those that revealed congruence regarding the adequacy of the sentence and the usefulness of the sanction imposed. Regarding sentences’ purposes, we noticed most participants considered punishment and general deterrence as the primary purposes. The main contribution of this study lies in its educational value about the cognitive particularities and specific needs of each type of offender. Not attending to offenders’ perceptions regarding sanctions may function as an obstacle for an efficient implementation of the Justice, in terms of their adherence to the sanctions, and consequently their rehabilitation.","PeriodicalId":44523,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Probation","volume":"13 1","pages":"161 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/20662203211014161","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46926047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Two worlds colliding: Offenders’ rehabilitation and victims’ protection through mutual recognition of probation measures","authors":"Patricia Faraldo-Cabana","doi":"10.1177/20662203211006876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/20662203211006876","url":null,"abstract":"Framework Decision 2008/947/JHA explicitly combines offenders’ rehabilitation with other purposes, such as the improvement of the protection of victims. This article provides one of the first analysis of the aim of ‘victim protection’ in the Framework Decision and of its limited usefulness. The relationship between victims’ right after sentencing and the transfer of probation measures reveals a contradictory system unable to coordinate victims’ protection and compensation and offenders’ social rehabilitation.","PeriodicalId":44523,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of Probation","volume":"13 1","pages":"145 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/20662203211006876","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49253687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}