NCJ Number
240159
Journal
British Journal of Criminology Volume: 52 Issue: 5 Dated: September 2012 Pages: 889-907
Date Published
September 2012
Length
19 pages
Annotation
This paper examines the development and establishment of a probation service in Romania as a result of the international community's penal practices and policies.
Abstract
The intention of this paper is to contribute to the international debate on penal policy transfer by describing the development of a probation service in Romania following the policy transfer schema developed by Dolowitz and Marsh (1996). Both authors of this article played a role in the establishment of probation in Romania and this article provides an 'inside story'. The conclusion is that both the debate and practices of policy transfer have been too simplistic to capture the dynamic and complex nature of international policy transfer and, indeed, that the notion of policy transfer itself is ill conceived. The authors demonstrate how partnership, when applied to international penal policy and practice developments, provides a potentially useful model. (Published Abstract)