The probation system / by Cecil Leeson.

  • Leeson, Cecil.
Date:
1914
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Credit: The probation system / by Cecil Leeson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    presumably, responsible to the Home Office ; but, at the time of writing, there exists no body whose business it is to supervise, develop and co-ordinate probation work on a national basis. True, it is impossible, undesirable even, to standardise the work of individual probation officers. The case in hand will be treated as the officer in his discretion thinks fit, and any suggestion from above will probably be a mistaken one. But there is no reason at all why the general conditions under which probation work is done should not be properly organised. Locally, the several units of probation administration (the voluntary and salaried probation officers, that is) should be im- mediately responsible to a chief probation officer; the chief probation officer, in turn, to be responsible to a committee of local justices. Nationally, there should be created a special permanent branch of the Home Office to exercise general oversight and supervision of probation work. Amongst other things, this special depart- ment would seek to develop the probation system throughout the country, to stimulate