Research project

Rehabilitating Probation

Research groups:
Lead researcher:

Professor Harry Annison
Research funder:

ESRC
Status:

Active

Project overview

Rehabilitating Probation: Rebuilding culture, identity and legitimacy in a reformed public service is a three-year (2022-2024) ESRC funded research project that aims to examine the implementation, experiences and consequences of a significant and unprecedented programme of public service reform that has brought formerly outsourced probation services back into the public sector.

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Harry Annison

Professor

Research interests

Penal politics
Probation and parole
Narratives, storylines and penal policy

Email: h.annison@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Institute of Criminal Justice Research

We are an interdisciplinary research hub that explores and develops the relationships between criminal justice scholarship, research, policy, and practice.