The former is preoccupied with antisocial behaviour, the latter is in the business of promoting citizenship and participation.
Not that such apparent contradictions are anything new. I recall at the end of the 1980s reading a report by the Association of Chief Officers of Probation. It deplored the fact that while young adult offenders were top of the criminal justice agenda, young adults - 16- to -25-year-olds - were bottom of the social security agenda. The result was that probation officers had no time for constructive rehabilitative practice because they were immersed in debt counselling and trying to divert their young clients from reoffending because they were denied benefits.
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