Rehabilitating and resettling offenders in the community

Introduction: how should we treat offenders and what can we learn from the past?

The early history of punishing offenders: punishments and help offered to those incarcerated

The changing nature of punishing and supervising offenders: the probation service from inception until 1984: from idiosyncratic individual officers "rescuing the fallen" to a centrally managed organisation

The changing nature of punishing and supervising offenders: the probation service after 1984: from social work to social control and punishment

Deconstructing national standards for the supervision of offenders in the community

Views of front line staff

289 Borough High Street, the Aftercare and Resettlement Unit (A.C.U.) in the inner london probation service 1965-1990

Through-care and after-care of offenders by the National Offender Management Service

Issues around rehabilitation.