QUALITY AND EFFECTIVENESS IN PROBATION OFFICERS’ REPORTS TO SENTENCERS
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The British Journal of Criminology
- Vol. 35 (2) , 188-200
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a048493
Abstract
Preparations to implement the 1991 Criminal Justice Act in England and Wales included a pilot study organized by the Home Office to assess the impact of introducing pre-sentence reports in a wider range of cases in the Crown Courts. This paper reports some findings from the study concerning the variable quality of probation officers' reports; the level of agreement between the researchers' assessments of quality and those made by sentencers in the Crown Courts; and the impact of low and high quality reports on the sentencing process.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: