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66 Prob. J. 3 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/probj66 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial The -o o f C..-ity adm d c sHc Probation Journal 2019, Vol. 66(1) 3-7 Five years of © The Author(s) 2019 Article reuse guidelines: ransforming sagepub.com/iournals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0264550519825958 Rehabilitation: Markets, journals sagepub.com/home/prb management and values OSAGE This special edition on Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) appears at a timely moment, five years on from the beginning of TR reforms, and following the release of a series of censorious reports from a Parliamentary committee (Justice), the National Audit Office and the Probation Inspectorate. All of them concurred with respect to the inadequacies of the financial model for TR, its logistical malfunctions, wastefulness, and most of all, failures towards those caught up in the criminal justice system. Moreover, these could hardly be dismissed as the predictable polemics of critical interest groups. This special issue, therefore, appears as the wider probation community has had an opportunity to digest the scale of the current situation, as well as consider what the next phase of development might be. A second aim is to provide a further point of reference from the previous special themed issue of this journal, 'Transforming Rehabilitation: Reflections Two Years On' (63:2), by updating the prescient concerns originally raised in that issue, some of which remain salient, while other predicted outcomes did not materialise as envisaged. Thirdly, we aim to document the implementation and practice of TR in its particular historical space, in the awareness that this knowledge and institutional memory might otherwise fade from the record as the next iteration of probation evolves. Accordingly, the articles here are written by researchers and practitioners whose work offers contemporary insights into the experiences and perceptions of those directly involved in implementing the programme. Fourthly, the collection offers a kaleidoscopic view of TR from the diverse vantage points of stakeholders, demonstrating the practical complexities of implementing TR at different interfaces. Finally, these accounts offer rare insights into otherwise opaque spaces of authority and decision-making, especially at higher reaches of political, executive and managerial authority whose activities are least well-documented in the literature. The special issue is also part of a wider endeavour to address empirical holes and narrative gaps in the TR story (appreciating that some questions may never be adequately answered). The order of the articles thus follows the direction of responsibility for decision-making and implementation as they flowed through dif- ferent agencies, from the government in Whitehall to Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) level management, through to specific sites such as prisons, community settings and probation. Each individual article illuminates the dynamics of TR in operation in a particular space. They show the compromises and tensions

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