Offender Supervision in Europe

Offender supervision in Europe has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in recent years. However, the emergence of mass supervision in the community has largely escaped the attention of legal scholars and social scientists more concerned with the mass incarceration reflected in prison growth. As well as representing an important analytical lacuna for penology in general and comparative criminal justice in particular, the neglect of supervision means that research has not delivered the knowledge that is urgently required to engage with political, policy and practice communities grappling with delivering justice efficiently and effectively in fiscally straitened times, and with the challenges of communicating the meaning, legitimacy and utility of supervision to an insecure public.
This book reports the findings from a survey of European research on this topic, undertaken during the first year of a European research network that spans twenty countries. As such, it provides the first comprehensive review of research on offender supervision in Europe, opening up an important new field of enquiry for comparative social science, and offering the prospects of better informed democratic deliberation about key challenges facing contemporary justice systems, policymakers and practitioners, and the societies they seek to serve.

"The most extensive analysis yet of mass supervision as it is emerging Europe, from a collaborative network of some of the regions best criminologists. This is our leading source on the global trend that may be replacing mass incarceration" - Jonathan Simon, Berkeley Law, University of California, USA

"Offender Supervision in Europe is a stimulating and thought-provoking read. It is an important statement of where we currently are, including gaps and opportunities, in evaluating and studying community supervision in Europe, and it provides a challenge to develop the evidence and assessment to better understand and improve offender supervision in Europe." - Ann Reade, The Probation Service, Dublin, Ireland

Autorentext
Miranda Boone, University of Groningen and University of Utrecht, the Netherlands Ioan Durnescu, University of Bucharest, Romania Christina Enengl, University of Vienna, Austria Christian Grafl, University of Vienna, Austria Martine Herzog-Evans, Reims University, France Elena Larrauri, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain Christine Morgenstern, University of Greifswald, Germany Gwen Robinson, University of Sheffield, UK Kerstin Svensson, Lund University, Sweden

Zusammenfassung
For the last thirty years or so, penal theorists and researchers have been preoccupied with mass incarceration. This book focuses on the neglected area of offender supervision which has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in recent years, providing a unique insight into offender supervision in the European community.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Studying 'mass supervision'; Fergus McNeill and Kristel Beyens 2. Experiencing Supervision; Ioan Durnescu, Christina Enengl and Christian Grafl 3. Decision-making and Supervision; Miranda Boone and Martine Herzog Evans 4. Practising Supervision; Gwen Robinson and Kerstin Svensson 5. European Norms, Policy and Practice; Christine Morgenstern and Elena Larrauri 6. Conclusion: Studying mass supervision comparatively; Kristel Beyens and Fergus McNeill