ABSTRACT
The adult probationer may sometimes resent the interference of the Probation Officer in his private affairs, and conditions imposed in the Probation Order—judicious and indispensable as they usually are—may occasionally be somewhat detrimental to any reputation that the individual concerned may enjoy among his family or neighbours. Legislation, on the other hand, has certainly gone a long way in its efforts to remove any social stigma from Probation— as far as this aim can at all be achieved by means of legal provisions. Anglo-American Probation law differs profoundly from all other legislation2 in so far as it prohibits the passing of a conditional sentence. Continental law has developed an institution the aim of which is to repair— after the lapse of an appropriate period of quarantine— the injury done to the offender’s reputation by certain forms of punishment.
