Philip Whitehead 
Transforming Probation [EPUB ebook] 
Social Theories and the Criminal Justice System

Modernising probation and criminal justice since 1997;

Durkheim, Weber, Marx, Foucault, and the Symbolic: social theory with the ‘big guys’;

Religious, humanitarian and personalist impulses: footprints left by ‘the good guys’;

Social theory and organizational complexity: putting theories and impulses to work;

Researching modernization and cultural change in probation: views of solicitors, clerks, magistrates, barristers and judges;

Modernizing monstrosities and cultural catastrophes: probation trapped in a new order of things.

Philip Whitehead is Professor in Criminal and Social Justice at the University of Teesside. After studying theology at Manchester University and later qualifying as a social worker/probation officer at Lancaster University, Philip worked for the Probation Service in the North East of England before being appointed lecturer at Teesside University in 2007. He has written widely on the history and modernisation of the probation service.