I was delighted to read the recent announcement that the winner of the first-ever Mike Guilfoyle Prize, an essay competition celebrating the values of probation practice, was a colleague in my own probation region. Having encountered the late Mike Guilfoyle several times at criminal justice events – and having corresponded over email – it is […]
In England and Wales, the practice of probation as a criminal sentence dates back to the 10th century, with Athelstan, an Anglo-Saxon King, enacting laws to allow individuals under the age of 15 to be supervised in the community as an alternative to the death penalty. Athelstan’s intervention has been described as the ‘rudimentary groundwork’ […]
Elliot Tyler