Criminal Justice Books That Matter
 

Frankl's classic memoir and introduction to logotherapy is one of the most important books you can read, whether you work in criminal justice, counselling, or simply want to understand how people endure. A demanding, hopeful, and genuinely essential read.

I picked this up because the title made me laugh. I kept reading because it made me think. Baxter spent twenty-five years in probation before the service was privatised, and the book is her account of that career. It is warm, honest, and at times quietly devastating in the way that only someone who has actually done the job can be. The cases stay with you. Steve, a convicted murderer whose great passion turned out to be cleaning, builds himself a marmite-based distillery in h

I should be upfront: this is my book. So take this review in that spirit, not as an objective assessment, but as an honest account of why I wrote it and what I was trying to say. I started in probation having recently been bailed from a police cell. That's not a detail I'd normally lead with, but it's in the book because it matters. The gap between the person who sits across from you in a supervision meeting and the person doing the supervising is often smaller than either of