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The Long Road to the Straight and Narrow : The challenges of a life in the Probation Service, Paperback / softback Book

The Long Road to the Straight and Narrow : The challenges of a life in the Probation Service Paperback / softback

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There were deep personal motives for John Hedge's original decision to enter the Probation Service as a young Social Science graduate in 1970; his own mother, a struggling publican, had been put on probation during his youth, and he had seen how the service can prevent a criminal conviction from ruining a life beyond repair.

He spent the next 37 years working to try to give offenders a chance and help them move away from crime and find their way to a law-abiding existence.

The barriers to success were all too often the attitudes of police and sentencers, the state of prisons and the prejudices of ignorant or biased politicians.

This is a candid account of those years of hard work, frustration, and occasional triumph

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