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The role of the Modern Probation Service.  

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The role of the Modern Probation Service focuses on five aims and objectives: Enforcement, Rehabilitation, Protection Of The Public, Proper Punishment and Victim Empathy. To describe the role of the "Modern" Probation Service from 2001 onwards, it is important to understand the evolvement of the Probation Service and the changes it has undertaken. Therefore the essay will compare and contrast the Probation Service from its origins, to the National Probation Service as its known today. Finally the essay will conclude by analysing the present concerns facing the National Probation Service and the future beyond 2004. To mark the work on Christian values, the initial Probation Of Offenders Act 1907 was implemented, (Chui & Nellis, 2003, p.5). It was then that the missionary era of the Probation Service was founded and the emphasis was on religion to assist and befriend people in dealing with their offending behaviour. Brownlee describes this era as...

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