A risky business: An examination of Irish probation officers’ attitudes towards risk assessment

Probation Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 163-174

  Fitzgibbon, Wendy ^a   Hamilton, Claire ^b   Richardson, Michelle ^c  

^a MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^c The Probation Service   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ireland; practitioners; probation; resistance; risk assessmen

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996200228     PISSN: 02645505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0264550510362562     Document Type: Article

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