Institute of Criminal Justice Studies

Profile

I am presently employed as Course Director in Community Justice with the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at the University of Portsmouth. I am responsible for the Educational provision relating to the Probation Qualifications Framework and manage our partnerships with Probation Trusts in London,  the South East region, the South West region, the North East region and Wales.  My teaching interests are in the broad areas of penology, restorative justice, community justice and the rehabilitation of offenders.

I have previously been employed as a probation officer and senior probation officer of a large city office with 120 members of staff of a variety of grades.   My professional experience has been in the management of dangerous offenders, group work with male domestic violence perpetrators and working with male offenders from a gendered perspective.

My main areas of interest and expertise are:

Expertise

• The Probation Service and community punishment
• Implementing Restorative Justice approaches
• Probation Practice and Child Protection concerns
• Risk Management, Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements and the management of dangerous offenders
• The Voluntary Sector in Probation and Prisons
• The treatment and rehabilitation of offenders

I have developed important links with the Republic of Korea Ministry of Justice following three successful visiting scholars at the Institute of Criminal Justice.  Mr Keung Song Roh visited in 2008 and studied England and Wales offender satellite tacking pilots. Mr Heung Soeb Lee visited in 2010 to research England and Wales approach to public protection including the Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA).  With Professor Mike Nash, I also attended an International Seminar in Seoul to mark the 20 year anniversary of Probation and Parole in 2009.

Current and Previous Research

• Restorative Justice Approaches with Looked after Children (2006-2008 with Carol Hayden)
• Research into the learning needs of Probation Officer trainees
• 'Punishment with Opportunity' - Research into employment schemes for offenders, PS Plus 3 in Dorset Probation Area (2008)
• Research into a supported housing initiative for offenders with Dorset Probation Area (2008)
• My current PHD research concerns the mixed economy of corrections, in particular the contribution of the Voluntary sector in the increasingly mainstream provision of rehabilitative services to offenders.

Publications

• Gough, D (2012 ) Rehabilitation and Risk: A Fusion of Concepts  in A Pycroft and S. Clift  (ed) Risk and Rehabilitation. Bristol. Policy Press
• Gough, D (2011) A Compressed Journey to Public Protection: Probation in South Korea in Probation Journal, 'Probation Futures Special Edition'
• Gough, D (2011) 'Revolution: The Marketisation of criminal justice, the voluntary sector and payment by results' in Centre For Crime and Justice Studies Justice Policy Review; London
• Pycroft, A and Gough, D (eds) (2010). Multi Agency Working in Criminal Justice: Control and Care in Contemporary Correctional Practice. Bristol. Policy Press
• Hayden,C and Gough,D(2010) Implementing Restorative Justice in Children's Residential Care. Bristol. Policy Press
• Gough, D (2005) 'Tough on Probation'. The National Offender Management Service and Probation Practice' in Winstone J and Pakes F (ed) Community Justice. Issues for Probation and Criminal Justice. Willan

Literature Reviews

• Review of Handbook of Probation (2007) edited by Gelsthorpe, L and Morgan, R in Criminology and Criminal Justice vol 8 no.4
• Review of 'Reshaping Probation and Prisons: The New Offender Management Framework edited by Hough M, Allen R, Padel U   in The Howard Journal  vol 45 no.4 September 2006

Papers

• 'Importing and Implementing Restorative Justice: Buyer Beware' at British Society of Criminology Conference. Human Rights, Human Wrongs. Dilemmas and Diversity in Criminology 11th -14th July 2010. University of Leicester.
• (with Carol Hayden) ‘The Logistics of Restorative Justice: Importing ‘Wagga Wagga’ into Children’s Residential Care’ at British Society of Criminology Conference, Criminological Futures; Controversies, Developments and Debates, 9-11July 2008, University of Huddersfield
• (with Carol Hayden) Offending behaviour and looked after' children in England: what can a restorative justice approach do to help? at 'Crime and Justice in an Age of Global Insecurity British Society of criminology Conference Mannheim Centre for Criminology London School of Economics 18-20 September 2007
• (with Carol Hayden) 'Restorative Justice and Children's Residential care in England' at 7th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology Bologna, Italy 26-29 September 2007
• (with Carol Hayden) "Almost a parent? Conflicting roles of children’s residential care staff using a restorative justice approach" - Criminal Justice and Social Justice: New Directions. July 5-6, 2007, Kings College, University of London
• "Keeping it in the (Corporate) Family. Crime, Conflict, State Care and Restorative Justice" - Keynote Address to National Association for Youth Justice Conference 'Removing Barriers, Opening Doors' January 26th 2007 Portsmouth

Awards

• Whilst studying at Southampton University (1995-1997) I received the Barbara Castle Award for Excellence in Social Work from the Department of Social Work Studies.
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, August 2009 Ref 35686