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Experiencing Supervision: From ‘Sparing the First Offenders’ to ‘Punishment in the Community’ and Repairing the Harm Done

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By supervision we understand here all activities associated with the implementation of the community sanctions and measures that have a surveillance component which is implemented in the community: probation orders, community service orders, conditional sentences, suspended sentences, deferred sentences and so on.

Some ideas are further developed in Durnescu et al. (2013) Experiencing Supervision in McNeill, F. and Beyens, K. (eds) Offender Supervision in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.

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    Ioan Durnescu

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    Ioan Durnescu

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    René Butter

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Durnescu, I. (2016). Experiencing Supervision: From ‘Sparing the First Offenders’ to ‘Punishment in the Community’ and Repairing the Harm Done. In: McNeill, F., Durnescu, I., Butter, R. (eds) Probation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51982-5_10

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