Shades of professionalism: Risk assessment in pre‐sentence reports in Sweden
(2012) In European Journal of Criminology 9(3). p.176-190- Abstract
- Abstract in Undetermined
An emphasis on risk assessment has been introduced in the instructions guiding pre-sentence reports in Sweden. Since this focus indicates an organizational aspiration to risk management, we examined how pre-sentence assessments are made and especially how probation officers relate to risk assessments. Our results show that probation officers do not act in accordance with the guidelines; they tend to focus on offender needs and social situations more than risk factors, and the reports still resemble the previous social reports based on clinical assessments. This article is based on an analysis of 1320 pre-sentence reports, along with 18 individual interviews and 6 focus groups with probation officers.
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- author
- Persson, Anders LU and Svensson, Kerstin LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- pre-sentence reports, probation, professionalism, risk assessment
- in
- European Journal of Criminology
- volume
- 9
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 176 - 190
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
- external identifiers
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- wos:000301795800005
- scopus:84858688358
- ISSN
- 1741-2609
- DOI
- 10.1177/1477370811424985
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 2aa954bf-2eb6-498a-8c85-630fda5abe30 (old id 2158570)
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title = {{Shades of professionalism: Risk assessment in pre‐sentence reports in Sweden}},
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