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This is a guest post by Dr Brian Stout who is Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Western Sydney. He previously taught on the DipPS and the PQF at De Montfort University and worked as a probation officer in Northern Ireland. You can follow @drbrianstout on Twitter. Biometric kiosks London Probation Trust’s initiative to use biometric technology to support its work with offenders has received a strongly negative reaction from NAPO and the Prison Reform Trust, who fear that the purple kiosks where offenders will be asked to report to will be used to replace human probation interventions, rather than complement probation officers’ face-to-face work. Machines of this sort are used in some parts of the USA but my only personal experience of observing the operation of a biometric scheme as part of probation work was
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