The author argues that Service enthusiasm for 'alternatives to custody' has done nothing to challenge the centrality of custody in criminal justice but has promoted the expectation that we have the technical expertise to provide viable social discipline. Now that the state has economic reason to seek its own 'alternative to custody' strategy, will the Probation Service be able to survive with its values intact?
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