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Underdown, Andrew (2001). "Making 'what works' work: Challenges in the delivery of community penalties." In Community penalties: Change and challenges, eds. Anthony Bottoms, Loraine Gelsthorpe, and Sue Rex, 117-125. Cambridge Criminal Justice Series. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing.

In this chapter Underdown comments on opportunities and challenges with respect to the “what works� initiatives for probation services in the United Kingdom in the late 1990s. Underdown maintains that a central challenge to such rehabilitative programs lies in compliance and engagement – that is, the issue of an offender’s success in satisfying probation requirements and thus completing community-based rehabilitation programs. In view of this, he discusses strategies for probation services to improve prospects for offender compliance and success in rehabilitation.

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