Probation officers’ perspectives on recent Belgian changes in the probation service

Probation Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 257-268

  Bauwens, Aline ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

case management; managerialism; organizational change; practitioners; probation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996167943     PISSN: 02645505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0264550509337456     Document Type: Article

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