Supervision, motivation and social context: What matters most when probationers desist?

What Matters in Probation

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 187-209

  Farrall, Stephen ^a  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781843924920     Document Type: Chapter

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