Workshop Themes
The conference workshops will be organised around the following themes. At this early stage these themes are meant to be broad and inclusive and suggestions for additional themes would be appreciated or may emerge from submissions for workshops, seminars or poster presentations and they will be signalled here.
Submission of workshops, papers, symposia and poster presentations
We intend the workshop and seminar sessions to be a mix of practitioner, policy and academic inputs. We therefore encourage submissions from all sectors. If you want to showcase a project then a workshop or a poster presentation might be appropriate. If you have been undertaking a piece of research or a theoretical analysis then a seminar paper can be submitted.
The themes are:
- Origins and history of probation
- Police court missionaries; early legislation and its impact upon services; advise, assist and befriend; voluntarism and probation; role of religious belief in developing probation.
- What works
- Drugs; alcohol; MDOs; ETE; mentoring; sex offenders; CBT; domestic violence; sex working and trafficking; young people; victims; anti-social behaviour; Problematic Drug Use.
- Resettlement and prison-based work
- prison health; prison welfare work; lifers; bail and remand; Resettlement and Tackling Social Exclusion.
- Policy, management and legislation
- Risk assessment; risk management; modernisation; NOMS; knowledge management; Community Justice Centres; OASYS Risk Assessment Tool; C-NOMIS.
- Training, education and staff development
- Diploma in Probation Studies; offender management training; what works; e-learning; occupational standards; Skills for Justice.
- Offenders’ perspectives
- Peer mentoring; prisoners as citizens; service user perspectives; Employers, Recruitment and Offenders.
- International perspectives
- The Scottish approach; European perspectives; north American approaches; rest of the world; the nature of community justice; comparative analyses.
- Diversity, values and equal opportunities
- Probation values; anti-discriminatory practice; working with difference; services for black and minority ethnic offenders; offenders with learning difficulties; women offenders; Racist Victimisation.
- Partnerships in delivering services for offenders
- Joined-up services; role of the voluntary and community sector; private sector engagement; youth offending teams; MAPPAs; community safety; Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships; The Police and Community Justice; persistent and prolific offenders.
- Research and theory
- Restorative justice and offenders; Community Governance of Crime, Justice and Safety; Electronic Monitoring and Penal Policy; What Works: Rhetoric, Reality and Research; appropriate research methods in probation research.
- The future of probation and community engagement with offenders
- Regional Offender management; Contestability and commissioning; mixed economy of provision; modernisation; the future of the probation service.
Century of Probation 2007 Conference Secretariat, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Room 5503 Surrey Building, Sheffield S1 1WB
Tel: 0044 114 225 5342/5338 Fax: 0044 114 225 5337
E-Mail: conference21@shu.ac.uk
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Tel: 0044 114 225 5342/5338 Fax: 0044 114 225 5337
E-Mail: conference21@shu.ac.uk
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