ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that with the ascendance of penal control, those subject to probation and parole often experience their time under supervision as intrusive and punitive. The chapter goes on to consider the degree to which the arena of supervision despite the accent on penal control has retained a neo-rehabilitation or ‘correctionalist narrative’, in the process embracing evidence-based practices. These comments provide the foundation for subsequent sections calling for revisiting the content of supervision and officers’ relationships with those they supervise, and the integration of ‘what works’ with ‘what is just’. The chapter concludes with a series of ‘prescriptions for practice’: reforms that are central to the reconstruction of community supervision.
