01707nam a2200133   450000100060000010000410000610100080004720000380005533013350009346100600142860600550148870000200154385200100156319833  a20050511u           y0pory50      ba  aeng  aRemembering probation in Scotland  aSet within the contexts of probation's upcoming centenary in Scotland (in 2005) and the current debate about the future of criminal justice social work in Scotland (and probation in England and Wales), this article provides an account of the early history of probation in Scotland, focussing on the rarely discussed period between 1905 and 1968. Following Nellis's (2001) injunction to develop a "historically tutored memory" as a defence against the narrowing of our visions for the future, and drawing on Vanstone's (2004) recent work on the history of the service in England and Wales, the article pieces together and seeks to understand a significant change in Scottish probation's core identity and purpose from providing  supervision as an alternative to punishment to providing "treatment" as a means of reforming offenders. In the concluding discussion, the article briefly summarises the subsquent move towards a welfare-oriented approach after 1968 and, more recently the drift towards public protection as an overarching purpose  (Robinson and McNeill, 2004). The article concludes that the current debate in Scotland should shift from "second order" questions around organizational arrangements to "first order" questions around which aspects of these various purposes and identities should endure in the 21st century.  vV.52,n.1dMar. 2005pp.23-38tProbation JournalcLondon  aESCÓCIA  PROBATION  HISTÓRIA  SERVIÇO SOCIAL  aMCNEILLbFergus  jP.105