title: Pains of probation: effective practice and human rights.
abstract: This article explores the experience of offenders while under probation supervision and analyses the "pains of probation" in connection to rehabilitation aspirations. The article has two main parts. In the first part of the article, the experiences of probationers are examined using thematic analysis, and eight different pains of probation are identified. In the second part of the article, these pains of probation are examined from two different perspectives: human rights and the Good Lives Model. The conclusion is that these two perspectives support each other and can help reduce the frustrations and deprivations experienced by individuals on probation. By implementing these two perspectives, probation services may overcome the obstacles toward desistance and earn more legitimacy in the eyes of probation recipients.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Sociology and Social Work,University of Bucharest, Schitu Magureanu Street No. 9, Bucharest, Romania. idurnescu@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ioan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Durnescu
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D001240:Aspirations, Psychological; D001290:Attitude; D004644:Emotions; D005639:Frustration; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D011329:Prisoners / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology*; D011610:Psychosocial Deprivation; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012383:Romania; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012926:Social Control, Formal / Q000379:methods*; D012931:Social Environment; D057545:Social Stigma; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D055815:Young Adult