Individualisation and Justice

Abstract

Prompted by what he sees as a number of serious errors in Elizabeth Barnard's article, "The Context of the British Parole System" (P.J., 27:2, May 1980), the author reappraises the extent of post-war con sensus about and commitment to state welfare services; examines the notions of rehabilitation and correctionalism; exposes the attack on social work implicit in some radical critiques of social institutions; sketches the possibilities for a humanised justice system; and, finally, argues against overt, routinised and inflexible surveillance and control in the Probation Service.