%0 Journal Article %T Hollowing out probation? The roots of Transforming Rehabilitation %A John Deering %A Martina Feilzer %J Probation Journal %@ 1741-3079 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0264550518820119 %X This article provides a critical perspective on the political and policy history of probation in England and Wales to develop a better understanding of how TR came to be. TR was only the latest act in a longstanding process of changing probation to fit ideological ¡®flavours¡¯, and we suggest that it is the hidden nature of probation work in combination with a lack of public legitimation work by probation institutions and probation staff that has placed probation in such a vulnerable position %K probation %K privatisation %K organisational change %K CJ legislations %K organisational culture %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0264550518820119