BIBLIOGRAPHY 95 assigned to them, be regularly tested (for example, for drug use), and may be subject to certain restrictions (for example, freedom of movement and the right to engage in certain work or other activities). The National Probation Service in Lithuania is regulated by the Law on Probation. – According to this law, the purpose of probation is to ensure effective resocialization of probationers and to reduce their recidivism. The grounds for probation are: 1) a final guilty verdict by which the convicted person was sentenced to arrest or imprisonment and its execution was postponed, and the judge's order to execute the sentence; 2) conditional release of the convicted person from the correctional institution. During the interviews, research participants from the Probation Service shared that during their years of practice, they have not encountered or worked with many persons with intellectual and/or psychosocial disabilities, only a few. According to one interviewee, usually in such cases, they just slightly adapt or simplify the same general programmes, which they use with everyone else: „Since we have programmes related to behaviour, i.e., behavioural change programmes, so we simply adapted those programmes a little bit, we explained more, how to complete those tasks <…> we tried to do everything more through talking, through conversation, so that they had to write less <…>. But we somehow talked more,