Mike Guilfoyle

Mike Guilfoyle was a probation officer and regular columnist and a great friend of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.

Good in installments
Sometimes probation is about achieving moments of stability
You're prison bound
Remembering a supervision in West London
Unbidden memories
When practicing empathic supervision leads to self-understanding of painful memories
How long have you been sober?
Reflections on working with alcohol-dependent women offenders
Medication, medication
A supervision aided by locum Mental Health social worker addressing medication concerns
A day like no other
A usually busy day at court is interrupted by horrific external events
In the dock
Reflections on a challenging early probation supervisory
In your face
A stake-out, a selectively incontinent client, and a remarkable probation officer
"I am exercising my right not to self-incriminate"
A legally-trained client proves unreceptive
Probation in Ukraine, nothing like this
An uncertain but ultimately successful supervision with resonances to current events
Out on the patch
The lives hidden away from the hurly-burly of media or public interest
Dodging passing traffic
The important things not captured in a target matrix
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