Offender Supervision in Europe

Offender supervision in Europe has developed rapidly in scale, distribution and intensity in recent years. However, the emergence of mass supervision in the community has largely escaped the attention of legal scholars and social scientists more concerned with the mass incarceration reflected in prison growth. As well as representing an important analytical lacuna for penology in general and comparative criminal justice in particular, the neglect of supervision means that research has not delivered the knowledge that is urgently required to engage with political, policy and practice communities grappling with delivering justice efficiently and effectively in fiscally straitened times, and with the challenges of communicating the meaning, legitimacy and utility of supervision to an insecure public. 

1. Introduction: Studying 'mass supervision'; Fergus McNeill and Kristel Beyens 2. Experiencing Supervision; Ioan Durnescu, Christina Enengl and Christian Grafl 3. Decision-making and Supervision; Miranda Boone and Martine Herzog Evans 4. Practising Supervision; Gwen Robinson and Kerstin Svensson 5. European Norms, Policy and Practice; Christine Morgenstern and Elena Larrauri 6. Conclusion: Studying mass supervision comparatively; Kristel Beyens and Fergus McNeill

Miranda Boone, University of Groningen and University of Utrecht, the Netherlands