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Probation Practice and an End to Punishment

NCJ Number
123219
Journal
Howard Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 29 Issue: 1 Dated: (February 1990) Pages: 14-24
Author(s)
W McWilliams; K Pease
Date Published
1990
Length
11 pages
Annotation
On prudential and moral grounds, it is argued, the rehabilitation of offenders should be restored as the central philosophical ideal of the probation service.
Abstract
The paper discusses how and why this might be done and suggests how it might modify current probation practice and its regulation. (Author abstract)

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