"This all speaks for the need for the curfew to be managed more as a part of a whole programme of working with the offender to change their behaviour," she added.
"For that to happen, you have to work very hard with the offender to understand the RJ conference, including debriefing afterwards – something that happens very well under Project Restore in New Zealand, for instance, but that doesn't always happen here where the focus is more on the victim," she explains.
But we work with the violent and serious offenders only.
The implementation of the UK governments' 'Transforming Rehabilitation' reform program has led to the creation of a new public sector National Probation Service to work with the most high-risk offenders and the establishment of 21 new Community Rehabilitation Companies (CRCs).
The government is keen that the courts and multi-agency youth offending teams, which work with young offenders and will run the scheme, make greater use of the orders, especially the community payback element.
It added that there were no major differences in the quality of work by gender, ethnicity or disability, although there was evidence that some aspects of probation work with older offenders met the standard more often than with young adults.
Their aim is to work with young offenders, early school leavers and the long-term unemployed.
Despite all this I worked my way into my perfect position: as a school and youth liaison officer, my job was to work with young offenders and those at risk of offending.
Tajikistan has some innovative examples such as the diversion projects that work with young offenders, and reformed consultation and education services for children with disabilities.
Other cities and counties around the nation specifically prohibit probation officers who work with juvenile offenders from carrying guns.
