Mike Guilfoyle

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

I want a probation officer like you
How management diktat can create barriers to establishing necessary connection
Putting your past behind you
Reading about racial injustices in US policing brings to mind a memorable supervision in the UK
The people caught between fractured service provision
A challenging case involving statutory responsibility for supervision
Addressing enforcement-led probation practice
A case for relationship-building over impersonal recall decisions
An unpromising encounter
Attempts to help a very involuntary client
Two clients, two pathways
Mike Guilfoyle remembers Brinley
The devil you know
Gwen Adshead's new book evokes a memory of a challenging supervisory encounter
The role of compassion, determination and experience in probation
Learning from the compassion and determination of a more experienced colleague
When punishment trumps rehabilitation, prisoners suffer
Reflecting the impact on one prisoner's progress when a model prison is put in closed conditions
Trying to do things better in probation
Mike Guilfoyle reflects on the difficulties working with homeless service-users
A bruising judicial encounter
His recollections stood out for me not least because of his thoughtful judicial commitment to reducing the…
Breaking out
I had just finished rea
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