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The discussion of crime statistics addresses the process by which official crime statistics are compiled, the gap between crimes committed and those reported and recorded, and the degree to which this gap undermines the usefulness of crime statistics. Fear of crime is discussed so probation officers may be sensitive to the fears of people they meet and develop skills to respond to those fears, many of which will often impact the probationers they supervise. Victim services are discussed as a means of preparing probation officers to serve the ends of victim reparation through restitution efforts by probationers. A chapter considers how the probation service may serve the ends of situational crime prevention, which involves the reduction or elimination of the opportunity to commit specific crimes. A chapter on female offenders discusses recent changes in the nature and extent of women's criminality, whether courts treat women offenders differently from men, and women as crime victims. A chapter that analyzes the processing of blacks in the British criminal justice system concludes that available evidence does not show that either sentencing or probation in isolation provides a plaus

Author

Harris, Robert, 1947-

Publisher

London ; New York: Tavistock/Routledge

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415050340

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences