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Restructuring, resistance and privatisation in the non-custodial sector

School of Humanities, Thames Polytechnic

Tony Ward

School of Law, Leicester Polytechnic

The government has recently announced plans to restructure the probation service in England and Wales and to expand the use of the volumary sector, and also of for profit agencies, in deafing with effenders. This article suggests that the rationale behind these changer is not mainly secure greater consistency or a more cost-effective services but primaris to croerve the probation service into delivering tougher alternatives to custody. Particular consideration is give to the proposed extension of the voluntary sector as a means of bypassing opposition within the statutory sector to harsher punishments; and to the future relationship between these sectors isthe government's poposals are translated into practice.

Critical Social Policy, Vol. 10, No. 30, 54-67 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/026101839001003004


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