Vic McLaren of West Yorkshire Probation Service and Jon Spencer of Manchester University trace the surviving threads of rehabilitative theory and practice, now explicitly acknowledged as a key aim of probation as a community order, and invite the Service to 'exploit the opportunities' now offered by legislation.
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