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12 Prob. 1 (1966)

handle is hein.journals/probj12 and id is 1 raw text is: P ROBA1ION Vol 12 No I March 1966 Journal of the National Association of Probation Officers COMMENT The Adult Offender THE NEW WHITE PAPER on The Adult Offender is, to a large exent, a statement of admirable aims many of which are familiar, but which the Government now apparently really intends to introduce. They are all based on the continuation of the use of prison as a penal measure, but at least we can welcome the ending of preventive detention and corrective training. These started as well meant ideas which have entirely lost their meaning. The use of preventive detention for the persistent petty offender never seemed to be just and the new definition of a persistent offender which may warrant a long sentence is an imaginative one. It makes full allowance for any sustained effort to avoid trouble as no person will be labelled a persistent offender if he has not been convicted for three years. The main feature of the White Paper is the proposal to introduce a system of early release of prisoners serving long sentences. The White Paper proposes that prisoners may become eligible for release on licence after one year or one-third of a sentence, whichever is the longer, so that no person serving a sentence of less than two years would normally qualify. Even in the case of a two-year sentence the period on licence would be so short as to provide little opportunity for constructive work. The conditions of release according to the White Paper may include a requirement to be under the supervision of a probation officer. The responsibility of the probation service in this matter will be a serious one, as release on licence which may last many years will also involve the possibility of recall for misconduct. It has already been unofficially suggested that the probation officer will have an important responsibility as advisor to the Secretary CONTENTS COMMENT . . . . . . . 1 THE ADULT OFFENDER, David Haxby . . . . 4 PENNSYLVANIA'S PAROLE SYSTEM, K. H. Kavanagh . . 10 THE MISUSE OF PROBATION, Dr. Nigel Walker . . . . 12 CASEWORK AND MONEY PAYMENTS SUPERVISION, Mark Monger . 14 GROUP WORK IN PROBATION, D. S. Palmer. . 18 IN PARLIAMENT . . . . . . . . 20 FIFTY YEARS AGO . . . . . . . 22 PROBATION FORUM . . . . . . . . 23 BOOK REVIEWS Aspects of Training . . . . . 25 Prisoners and Their Families . . . . 26 Shorter Notices . . .. . . . 28 Digitized from Best Copy Available

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