The Long Road to the Straight and Narrow: The challenges of a life in the Probation Service

By Susana Sanchez Gonzalez

There were deep personal motives for John Hedge's original decision to enter the Probation Service as a young Social Science graduate in 1970; his own mother, a struggling publican, had been put on probation during his youth, and he had seen how the service can prevent a criminal conviction from ruining a life beyond repair. He spent the next 37 years working to try to give offenders a chance and help them move away from crime and find their way to a law-abiding existence. The barriers to success were all too often the attitudes of police and sentencers, the state of prisons and the prejudices of ignorant or biased politicians. This is a candid account of those years of hard work, frustration, and occasional triumph

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861517777
• ISBN13: 9781861517777
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Mereo Books
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"