From Rex???s study, one takes the message that displaying an interest in the lives of the probationers is an important first step towards building the sort of relationship which will foster and promote desistance.Farrall???s studies of the desistance or persistence of almost 200 men and women on probation in England (Farrall, 2002; Farrall and Calverley, 2006) have provided more substantive findin