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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025
The integration of the various methods of treatment within the treatment programme as a whole is perhaps the most important, and certainly the most difficult, problem in penology. All penologists have seen cases in which successful treatment has subsequently proved ineffective because aftercare has been inadequate. Although many of the difficulties can be overcome by goodwill, and especially by increasing the degree of communication between individuals, it is useless to deny that those who deal with offenders include professions who have very different roles to play in society, and that one must look for the best compromise between these roles rather than the abolition of all tension between them.