Black and Asian probationers: Implications of the Home Office study

Probation Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 24-37

  Calverley, Adam ^a   Cole, Bankole ^b   Kaur, Gurpreet ^c   Lewis, Sam ^c   Raynor, Peter ^d   Vanstone, Maurice ^d   Sadeghi, Soheila ^e   Smith, David ^f   Wardak, Ali ^g  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^f LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

discrimination; ethnicity; programmes; social exclusion; supervision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992775934     PISSN: 02645505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0264550506060863     Document Type: Article

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