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Beyond ‘Polibation’ and towards ‘Prisi-Polibation’? Joint Agency Offender Management in the Context of the Street Crime Initiative

This paper reflects on the trajectory in England and Wales towards greater criminal justice multi- and inter-agency cooperation with the objective of reducing crime. In particular we focus on the potential for the emergence of new forms of offender supervision that combine the close monitoring of specified groups of offenders with supportive resettlement programmes. We examine whether a new criminal justice practitioner is developing within this context, offering an ‘end-to-end’ service that blends and merges the operating practices of the participating agencies. We draw on Nash's concept of ‘polibation’, extend this to ‘prisi-polibation’, and consider these in relation to data derived from our evaluation of an inter-agency project that involved the joint agency (police/ probation/ prisons) management of street crime offenders in the English West Midlands. We suggest that although the cases for polibation and prisi-polibation are not proven, these conceptual models should not yet be dismissed and we conclude by speculating on their place in the future development of joint agency offender management.