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Professor Lol Burke

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Liverpool John Moores University

  1. Provide space for practitioners to reflect upon their practice
  2. Be part of a broader project to promote social justice
  3. Focus on inclusivity and reducing discrimination
Reimagining probation delivery requires, on the one hand, a highly strategic national focus and, on the other hand, the need to locate delivery mechanisms within local government and local communities

Biography

Lol Burke is Professor in Criminal Justice at Liverpool John Moores University and specialises in the areas of probation research, policy and practice. As a former probation practitioner, he has experience working in both community and custodial settings.

He has published extensively on probation related issues and rehabilitation in general and is co-author of:

  • Redemption, rehabilitation and risk management (2012),
  • Delivering rehabilitation: The politics, governance and control of probation (2015), 
  • Reimagining rehabilitation: Beyond the Individual (2019), 
  • Reimagining probation practice: Reforming rehabilitation in an age of penal excess (2022), 
  • An introduction to Penology: Punishment, Prisons and Probation (2023).

He was editor of the Probation Journal from 2007 to 2016 and is on the editorial board of the European Journal of Probation. He is also a Fellow of the Probation Institute and a member of the Howard League for Penal Reform’s Research Advisory Group, the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Community Sanctions, and CREDOS (an international collaboration of researchers for the effective development of offender supervision).

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