Opening a window on probation cultures: a photographic imagination

Probation workers are among the least visible in the criminal justice system. Drawing on a pilot photographic project involving probation workers from several European countries, this chapter considers selected photographs and photo-elicitation data from England and Wales and Northern Ireland. It co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Worrall, Anne, Carr, Nicola, Robinson, Gwen
Other Authors: Brown, Michelle
Format: Book Section
Published: Routledge 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45205/
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Summary:Probation workers are among the least visible in the criminal justice system. Drawing on a pilot photographic project involving probation workers from several European countries, this chapter considers selected photographs and photo-elicitation data from England and Wales and Northern Ireland. It concludes that (amateur, democratized) photography has the potential to empower and give ‘voice’ to practitioners. Further, photo-elicitation suggests that photographs invoke imaginative debate about both the empirical realities and the normative dimensions of probation work and cultures.