Running on the treadmill: practitioner experiences of mass supervision
Cracknell, Matthew 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9909-1173
(2022)
Running on the treadmill: practitioner experiences of mass supervision.
European Journal of Probation, 14
(2)
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pp. 109-127.
ISSN 2066-2203
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(doi:10.1177/20662203221104925)
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Abstract
This article explores the impacts that the addition of individuals serving short sentences has had on daily practice and working culture for probation workers. These practitioner perspectives are explored through the lens of ‘mass supervision’, providing a new insight into the harms and implications for its inherent deskilling qualities and constraints. This empirical research underlines three main themes related to the harms caused by mass supervision: firstly, that it inhibits innovative practice; secondly, that it necessitates a more limited model of supervision that undermines practitioner autonomy and the reach and scope of the supervisory relationship; and thirdly, that mass supervision corrodes the values of probation staff, leaving many experienced practitioners struggling ethically, practically and emotionally. The experience of mass supervision is compared to a treadmill by several practitioners and employed as a metaphor to analyse practice in the confines of mass supervision as generic, monotonous and relentless.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Research Areas: | A. > School of Law > Criminology and Sociology |
| Item ID: | 35180 |
| Notes on copyright: | © The Author(s) 2022
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
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| Depositing User: | Matt Cracknell |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2022 11:05 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2022 10:15 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/35180 |
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