The second group of programmes in this series is concerned with the treatment of the young offender in England and Wales
8: Probation Officer
I I can recall a man who committed suicide two days after I'd seen him and as far as I knew I was the only friend and contact that he had apart from the cat. In the end he gassed both himself and the cat.... Well. I can only cope with it by acknowledging my own fallibility. I know I cannot be all things to all men.'
Dr. ALAN LITTLE of the London School of Economics talks to
STAN RATCLIFFE a senior probation officer of the Old Street Probation Service in London
Produced by Richard Hooper