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Pre‐Sentence Reports, Risk Assessment and the Adversarial Process

Mark Harris

The British Journal of Forensic Practice

ISSN: 1463-6646

Article publication date: 1 February 1999

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Abstract

The role of the Probation Service in providing an information and assessment process to the courts is currently in a state of considerable flux. This paper, in reviewing the developments in Pre‐Sentence Report (PSR) writing by the Probation Service, suggests that for a number of reasons reports have become potentially contentious.

Citation

Harris, M. (1999), "Pre‐Sentence Reports, Risk Assessment and the Adversarial Process", The British Journal of Forensic Practice, Vol. 1 No. 1, pp. 12-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/14636646199900004

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MCB UP Ltd

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