PHILLIPS, Jake (2017). Probation practice in the information age. Probation Journal, 64 (3), 209-225.
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Abstract
This article analyses the implications of the greater use of technology and information in probation practice. Using data generated via an ethnography of probation, the article firstly argues that probation in England and Wales now exists in what scholars would identify as ‘the information age’ (i.e. that computers and other technologies work to define and create probation practice as we know it). The article goes on to use actor-network theory to analyse two ‘heterogeneous networks’ to explore the way in which probation practitioners and the technologies they use interact to create particular forms of practice. The article argues that unless we understand the technology that underpins practice we cannot fully understand practice. Finally, the article considers the implications of this analysis for probation post-Transforming Rehabilitation (TR).
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Probation practice; information age; technology; Actor-Network Theory; ethnography. |
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Law Research Group |
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > Department of Law and Criminology |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0264550517711279 |
Page Range: | 209-225 |
Depositing User: | Jake Phillips |
Date Deposited: | 26 May 2017 14:40 |
Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2021 04:07 |
URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/15768 |
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