In May 2019, the Ministry of Justice announced its plans for further probation reforms in England and Wales, which will see the end of Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs) and the return of probation supervision (and the staff to carry out this role) to the National Probation Service (NPS). The government’s announcement was widely welcomed as newspaper headlines proclaimed the ‘re-nationalisation’ of probation, following the many documented failures of Transforming Rehabilitation (TR) reforms. However, it is clear that this narrative of re-nationalisation or a return to a previous state fall somewhat short of mark, as the detail of what the government plans to ‘strengthen probation’ and build public confidence have been further elaborated. The outline of what the government plans to do is set out in its response to the Strengthening Probation Consultation (MoJ, 2019) and in the Proposed Future Model for Probation (HMPPS, 2019). It is clear from these plans that the marketised model that was a driving rationale for Transforming Rehabilitation is not to be dispensed with, but rather reformulated. The government outlines that while the NPS will have responsibility for supervising people subject to community orders and on licence, it will also be obliged to commission services such as unpaid work, accredited programmes, and ‘wider resettlement and rehabilitation interventions’, from the market. Twelve NPS regions will replace the current structure of 21 CRCs and 7 NPS geographical divisions. Each NPS region will have an ‘Innovation Partner’ from the private or voluntary sector and they will be obliged to contract them to carry out this work:

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缓刑再国有化……不完全是

2019 年 5 月，司法部宣布了英格兰和威尔士进一步缓刑改革的计划，这将使社区康复公司 (CRC) 结束，缓刑监督（以及执行此角色的工作人员）回归到社区康复公司。国家缓刑服务 (NPS)。政府的宣布受到了广泛欢迎，因为报纸头条宣布缓刑“重新国有化”，此前有许多记录在案的改造康复 (TR) 改革失败。然而，很明显，这种重新国有化或回到以前的状态的叙述有点不合时宜，因为政府计划“加强缓刑”和建立公众信心的细节已经得到进一步阐述。政府计划做的大纲在其对加强缓刑咨询（MoJ，2019 年）和“提议的缓刑未来模式”（HMPPS，2019 年）的回应中列出。从这些计划中可以清楚地看出，作为转型康复的驱动基本原理的市场化模型不能被免除，而是要重新制定。政府概述说，虽然 NPS 将负责监督受社区命令和许可的人，但它也有义务从市场委托服务，例如无偿工作、认可计划和“更广泛的重新安置和康复干预”。12 个 NPS 区域将取代目前 21 个 CRC 和 7 个 NPS 地理分区的结构。