Abstract
The current article outlines ways in which the police in England and Wales have been engaged in the control of young offenders, with particular reference to the national implementation of the Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme (ISSP): this programme was introduced by the Youth Justice Board (YJB) in 2001. The empirical research carried out by the author for the current article formed part of the official evaluation of ISSP; the latter was conducted by the Probation Studies Unit in Oxford University's Centre for Criminological Research, on behalf of the YJB. The evaluation was conducted between 2001 and 2004, and involved a broad range of quantitative and qualitative methods (see YJB, 2004b). Most of the results presented here focus on a specific part of the evaluation, which was concerned to pinpoint the role of the police in relation to surveillance and intelligence.
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