Experiences of Supervised Bail

Footnotes

1. Most supervised bail schemes in Scotland are run by Criminal Justice Social Work, but a few are run by third sector organisation Sacro. This report will use the term 'bail workers' to refer to people working in both kinds of schemes.

2. Since the research has taken place the guidance has been reworded to emphasise that any individual can be considered for bail supervision, rather than prescribing specific target groups.

3. For more on the definitions and uses of logic models, extensive resources can be found at
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/pdande/evaluation/evallogicmodel.html

4. It was not appropriate to ask bail supervision schemes to send contact details of supervised bailees directly to researchers due to Data Protection, so it was necessary to ask the schemes to act as gatekeepers so that personal information was only shared when this sharing had been approved by bailees themselves.

Unfortunately, due to the phased nature of this research, the component involving bail workers took place many months before the bailee interviews, and there was neither time nor resources to interview the supervisors of these bailees to explore this theory.

6. This was the bailee for whom the charges for which they had supervised bail were seen as a 'one off'.

7. This is also a recurrent theme in desistance literature, where it has been shown that many 'criminal careers' come to an end as people age, due to increased maturity, or the influence of life events such as finding a partner or getting a job.

8. It should be reemphasised that there is a link between perceived and actual behavioural control, and both will vary across individuals according to personal, psychological, and structural factors.