ABSTRACT
It was noted in Chapter 2 that relatively little use had been made of the arrangements under Schedule 1A (6) of the Powers of Criminal Courts Act 1973 (as inserted by the Criminal Justice Act 1991) to impose treatment as part of a sentence. The findings of the Home Office Probation Inspectorate as to why there had been a failure to make use of these services have been given earlier, but two of those findings need emphasis:
1 Reluctance on the part of probation officers to make such proposals in their pre-sentence reports, based on the view that coerced treatment is unlikely to be effective.
