Professional Disobedience in Probation: Manual-based Interventions and Transgressive Strategies

This book comprises an in-depth and highly inclusive ethnographic study of daily life in two local Danish probation offices. With a special emphasis on manual-based rehabilitative interventions, the book explores the interactions between probation officers and citizens on probation, serving conditional sentences, or performing community service, as well as the professionals’ rationales behind their rehabilitative efforts.

By presenting ethnographic findings that indicate a divergence between...