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The epithet ‘Compassion in the face of evil is no virtue’ outside a neo-Baptist church near an American Midwestern prison, which shocked Haney (2005), seems an appropriate symbol for this age in which the number of people being imprisoned, in countries such as America and the United Kingdom, is increasing inexorably while the morality and efficacy of imprisonment remains unchallenged. Primed by what Serin et al. (2010) term a conservative ideology, punish and be damned has become an acceptable political stance on crime by politicians who ostentatiously parade an increased prison population as a measure of their political credentials. Meanwhile, constructive notions such as probation not only face demands to demonstrate their worth but also struggle for survival.
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Vanstone, M. (2016). What Is Probation’s Role in Successful Social Integration (Resettlement) of People Leaving Prison? A Piece in the Jigsaw. In: McNeill, F., Durnescu, I., Butter, R. (eds) Probation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51982-5_7
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