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Outside Chance

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What should happen to petty criminals? Prison? Compulsory community service? Or voluntary rehabilitation? Since 1974 in Newham, one of London's poorest and most crime-ridden boroughs, a small and controversial team have tried to persuade magistrates and probation officers to try the third course. This is a report by David Sim mons on the result. Is there anything that can be learned from Newham? Producer JANE wood

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