ABSTRACT
This chapter will plot the development of the enforcement and performance culture within criminal justice with a particular emphasis on the Probation Service. However, a broader perspective will be considered in debating how this impacts on decision-making and case management within multi-agency approaches to working with offenders. This has been neatly summarised by Garland:
In the new framework rehabilitation is viewed as a means of managing risk, not a welfarist end in itself. If a treatment programme does not work, one can revert to other, more effective means, such as close supervision or custody. The contemporary emphasis on rigorous ‘breach’ procedures … serves precisely this function. (2001: 176)
