Professional Disobedience in Probation - Manual-Based Interventions and Transgressive Strategies

This book comprises an in-depth ethnographic study of daily life in two local Danish probation offices. It explores the interactions between probation officers and citizens on probation, assessing the potential for manual-based or 'scripted' rehabilitative interventions to inspire participatory citizenship among disenfranchised clients.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Challenges and potentials in Danish probation and beyond, 2. Policy and discretion: How frontline personnel adapt, resist and transgress organizational directives, 3. Approaches: Tracing the ethnographic 'how', 4. The office: Spaces, boundaries, entrances and people inside, 5. The manual: Adapting routine to change, 6. The work: Supervising change between administration and rehabilitation, 7. The act: Performing rehabilitation, causing anomie and breaking character, 8. Scripted participation: Client-processing in the name of democracy, 9. Beyond responsibilization: Closing in on professional disobedience, 10. Conclusion: Summary, findings and contributions

About the author

Asbjørn Storgaard is Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, University of Southern Denmark, specializing in criminology and philosophy of law. He holds a PhD in Social Work from Lund University (2023) and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Copenhagen (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Asbjørn Storgaard, Asbjrn Storgaard
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032952574
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3295257-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Studies in Probation and Community Sanctions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Anthropology, Legal aspects of criminology, Sentencing & punishment, Sentencing and punishment, Criminal justice law, Criminology: legal aspects, Probation services