This article argues that probation is well placed to facilitate desistance when delivered in community hubs – community-based offices where probation services are co-located with other community-based provision. However, we highlight that hubs need to include certain key factors to maximise the potential for desistance. Using data collected through a piece of empirical research in six community hubs in England and Wales, we identify what factors make for a ‘good’ community hub as perceived by staff who work in them, those subject to supervision via a hub, and managers with strategic responsibility for commissioning hub services. We consider what it is about those factors which facilitate desistance-focused practice as outlined in McNeill et al.’s (2012) eight principles of desistance-focused practice. The five key factors identified in this study are the location of a hub, the hub’s physical environment, the extent to which services are co-located/produced, the cultural context of the hub, and the need for leaders to be innovative in the way services are commissioned. The article concludes with a discussion of the implications for the National Probation Service as it takes over the work of Community Rehabilitation Companies in the coming years.

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在社区中心提供以抵抗为重点的缓刑：五个关键要素

本文认为，缓刑在社区中心（以社区为基础的办公室，其中缓刑服务与其他基于社区的服务位于同一地点）提供时可以很好地促进停止。然而，我们强调枢纽需要包括某些关键因素，以最大限度地发挥阻力的潜力。使用通过在英格兰和威尔士的六个社区中心进行的一项实证研究收集的数据，我们确定了在其中工作的员工、通过中心接受监督的人员以及具有以下资质的管理人员所认为的“良好”社区中心的因素调试枢纽服务的战略责任。我们考虑了 McNeill 等人 (2012) 提出的以抵抗为中心的实践的八项原则中概述的那些促进以抵抗为中心的实践的因素是什么。本研究中确定的五个关键因素是枢纽的位置、枢纽的物理环境、共同定位/生产服务的程度、枢纽的文化背景以及领导者创新方式的必要性服务已委托。文章最后讨论了对国家缓刑服务的影响，因为它在未来几年接管社区康复公司的工作。