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From the Seventies to the Nineties

Probation Journal

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First published online September, 1992

From the Seventies to the Nineties

Volume 39, Issue 3

https://doi.org/10.1177/026455059203900307

Abstract

Peter Ford left the Probation Service in 1976 to teach social work at the University of Southampton. He recently spent a year back in the Service as acting SPO (Training) in Portsmouth and here shares his impressions of the contrast then and now.

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