The changing arguments for assigning non-organised volunteers as assistant supervisors in the Swedish prison and probation service
(2023) In Nordic Journal of Criminology 24(2).- Abstract
- This study explores the ideas behind and development of assigning non-organised volunteers as assistant supervisors within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. The Swedish way of collaborating with volunteers in supervision of offenders is unique in an international perspective. This article includes an international literature review for this area that seldom is studied. With the help of Charles Tilly’s (1998) concepts of script and improvisation, this study shows how the Prison and Probation Service adds a strong script of cognitive behavioural theories and methods to their work, which have impact on their fulfilment of the legislators’ expectations of including volunteers in their practice. Further, this study shows how the... (More)
- This study explores the ideas behind and development of assigning non-organised volunteers as assistant supervisors within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. The Swedish way of collaborating with volunteers in supervision of offenders is unique in an international perspective. This article includes an international literature review for this area that seldom is studied. With the help of Charles Tilly’s (1998) concepts of script and improvisation, this study shows how the Prison and Probation Service adds a strong script of cognitive behavioural theories and methods to their work, which have impact on their fulfilment of the legislators’ expectations of including volunteers in their practice. Further, this study shows how the volunteers’ role and position has evolved from being partners with a mainly supportive role to being subordinate collaborators executing an intervention. It is argued that the idea of having volunteers connected to the practice hypothetically enables flexibility, whereby work with clients can be individually designed and facilitate the balance between support and control. In practice, however, this is not the case. Instead, the local improvisations seem to strive to avoid volunteers rather than develop the potentials in this construction. (Less)
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- Svensson, Kerstin LU
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- publishing date
- 2023-09-05
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- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- civil society, penal policy, probation, supervision, volunteers
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- Nordic Journal of Criminology
- volume
- 24
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- Routledge
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- scopus:85179363962
- ISSN
- 2578-983X
- DOI
- 10.18261/njc.24.2.2
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- English
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- yes
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- 66316b13-bcdf-48ec-811c-98ee2c9fe592
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abstract = {{This study explores the ideas behind and development of assigning non-organised volunteers as assistant supervisors within the Swedish Prison and Probation Service. The Swedish way of collaborating with volunteers in supervision of offenders is unique in an international perspective. This article includes an international literature review for this area that seldom is studied. With the help of Charles Tilly’s (1998) concepts of script and improvisation, this study shows how the Prison and Probation Service adds a strong script of cognitive behavioural theories and methods to their work, which have impact on their fulfilment of the legislators’ expectations of including volunteers in their practice. Further, this study shows how the volunteers’ role and position has evolved from being partners with a mainly supportive role to being subordinate collaborators executing an intervention. It is argued that the idea of having volunteers connected to the practice hypothetically enables flexibility, whereby work with clients can be individually designed and facilitate the balance between support and control. In practice, however, this is not the case. Instead, the local improvisations seem to strive to avoid volunteers rather than develop the potentials in this construction.}},
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title = {{The changing arguments for assigning non-organised volunteers as assistant supervisors in the Swedish prison and probation service}},
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