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level of analysis as other principles of effective practice. The penultimate section considers the interventions that develop offenders ’ resources and opportunities, thus identifying practical tasks for practitioners to enable offenders to build their social capital, which was identified in Section 2 as a critical element of the process of desistance. It outlines some of the main ways supervision can develop social capital, including working to support rebuilding or helping with family ties; focusing on supporting productive activity and also developing stronger community ties. Even if we wished that there was a model of effective practice that could be prescribed for practitioners, there is not; precisely because offenders are heterogenous, their needs are complex and their pathways to desistance are individualised, effective practice can only really emerge from practitioners’ reflective engagement and continual dialogue with whom they work and with the research that should inform how they work. (p. 53) This compelling report goes a long way towards enabling practitioners to achieve this aim