Mark Drakeford and Maurice Vanstone, Lecturers in Social Work at the Cardiff and Swansea Colleges of the University of Wales, identify the moral impoverishment and ineffectiveness of probation work based on correctional confrontation and 'moral scolding' and argue for the reinstatement of practice which recognises 'the diversity and complexity of real life'.
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