From probation work to criminal sanctions work: Key changes in social work with offenders in Finland from the 1960s to today
From probation work to criminal sanctions work: Key changes in social work with offenders in Finland from the 1960s to today

Summary/Abstract: The article addresses key changes in Finnish probation work’s rationalities, mentalities and technologies from the 1960s to the present, examining them within a wider governance theory framework. The article asks how the following aspects of probation work have changed: (1) the conditions of probation work, (2) its institutional self-understanding, (3) its work methods and (4) its objectives. The thesis is that these changes have been connected to several synchronous and multi-layered developments, such as globalization, a re-orientation of Finnish social policy and the introduction of new methods and tools within probation work.

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