Mike Guilfoyle

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

Risk, psychology and the changing culture of probation
Mike Guilfoyle remembers a service-user's apprehension of meeting a psychologist
Supervising Donny
Mike Guilfoyle fondly remembers a previous service-user
'Putting in work' with Santiago
Mike Guilfoyle considers the missed interventions and desistance struggles in supervision
A footballer and a probation officer
Whilst I do recall an irate prisoner during a prison visit threatening to dispatch my then line manager in…
A volatile probation relationship
The phrase, 'all coppers are bastards' often shortened to a pejorative acronym, was very much a piece of…
Memorable speakers from my time in probation
I have arranged dozens of headline speakers over many years and thought that I might be allowed a forgivable…
A busy morning in probation
The memorably alliterative phrase used was 'punitive passions pulsate' and the unsettling emotions…
A brush with the criminal justice system
In my monthly reflection pieces for this website, I evoke vignettes drawn from my past probation…
Surviving on the prison discharge grant
That is, how to manage in the first few weeks in the community on a meagre allowance of £46, known as the…
Tunes from another time
Whilst reading, I felt painfully constrained, thinking of whom I might include in this month’s…
'Solving crimes is a lot easier than solving people'
One recurring memory in particular prompted this post.
Mike Guilfoyle reflects on his time as a probation officer
Long-term friend of the Centre, Mike Guilfyole, about his time as a probation officer
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