Kishor Patel
Ashgate
Hardback
352
1994
Following extensive observation of the process of sentencing and after interviewing 23 members of the judiciary, 86 probationers and 60 probation officers, the authors detail with delightful insight the tortuous and accident-prone process of successfully recommending a probation order, persuading a member of the judiciary to make it, managing to allocate a supervising officer to the case and then actually supervising the term of probation.