Book Reviews : Crimes Without Victims (Deviant Behaviour and Public Policy) Edwin M. Schur Prentice-Hall Inc. Cloth 40s.; paper 16s
| DOI | 10.1177/026455056601200212 |
| Date | 01 June 1966 |
| Author | J. Leigh Jennings |
| Published date | 01 June 1966 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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handing
out
financial
aid?
Why
do
many
officers
dislike
this?
How
do
you
establish
a
relationship
with
clients
who
are
seriously
disturbed
personalities
and
whose
basic
difficulty
is
in
establishing
any
sort
of
relationship?
I
was
disappointed
that
the
paper
said
so
little
of
other
skills
and
techniques
such
as
group
work,
as
some
of
the
most
encouraging
results
have
been
obtained
with
psychopaths
and
recidivists
by
these
methods.
Richard
Hauser,
often
maligned
by
professional
social
workers,
transformed
H and
K
wings
at
Wands-
worth
Prison
and
also,
perhaps
more
important,
gave
to
the
prison
officer
the
impetus
to
develop
a
treatment
role
as
opposed
to
a
purely
custodial
one.
Dr.
Gray
at
Grendon
and
Towndrow
at
Blundeston
have
made
great
advances
in
setting
up
group
oriented
institutions.
Miles
makes
a
mistake
in
saying
that
prison
welfare
officers
really
should
be
able
to
carry
out
casework
in
prison,
designed
to
keep
a
man
in
touch
with
reality:
this
is
good,
but
much
more
is
needed.
The
welfare
officer
is
part
of
the
prison
team.
He
must
be
both
teacher
and
pupil.
He
has
to
use
prison
officers
as
auxiliaries,
and
this
is
a
diflicult
task,
and,
as
important,
he
has
to
become
a
partner
with
the
governor
and
other
specialists
in
setting
up
a
system
whereby
the
prison
can
become
a
place
of
train-
ing
and
teaching.
Miles
suggests
that
prison
staff
are
changing
their
attitudes
and
he
commends
them,
but
we
all
have
to
change
attitudes
and
the
probation
service
will
be
ill-advised
to
under-estimate
the
immense
task
facing
the
Prison
Department.
At
the
time
of
writing
the
prison
population
stands
at
over
32,000.
This
crippling
overcrowding
makes
the
need
to
use
prison
officers
in
a
treatment
role
even
more
urgent.
These
are
omissions
that
I
noticed
particularly,
perhaps
because
for
the
past
16
years
I
have
been
working
exclusively
in
prison
and
in
after-care
and
know
something
of
the
problems
of
both
inside
and
out.
Miles
is
quite
brilliant
in
his
sections
on
discharge
and
voluntary
organisation
and
auxiliaries.
These
must
be
read
by
all
officers
and
not
only
officers,
but
those
in
the
voluntary
field
as
well.
If
this
paper
teaches
me
anything,
and
it
surely
does,
it
teaches
me
that
if
after-care
is
going
to
work,
it
must
be
a
co-
ordinated
effort,
prison-probation-community
volunteers,
all
learning
from
the
others
and
all
with
a
distinct
role
to
play.
We
must
break
down
barriers
and
the
first
essential
is
the
barrier
between
probation
and
prison
services.
I
think,
as
each
service
gets
to
know
the
other
better,
respect
and
understanding
will
~row,
and
perhaps,
not
too
distant,
the
possibility
of
one
service
will
be
the
logical
outcome.
This
paper
of
Miles’
is
the
first
piece
of
constructive
literature
on
the
subject.
Perhaps
the
Prison
Department
will
have
something
to
say,
and
if
so,
I
hope
it
will
be
as
useful
and
constructive.
DOUGLAS
GIBSON
Crimes
Without
Victims
(Deviant
Behaviour
and
Public
Policy)
Edwin
M.
Schur
Prentice-Hall
Inc.
Cloth
40s.;
paper
16s.
Dr.
Schur
sees
three
kinds
of
deviance,
abortion,
homosexuality
and
drug
addic-
tion
as
unavoidable
aspects
of
social
life
on
which
the
impact
of
law
has
been
unhelpful
and
often,
for
lack
of
a
plain-
tiff,
unenforceable
- &dquo;an
indicator
of
in-
consistencies
in
a
society’s
value
system&dquo;.
He
considers
that
the
scientific
detach-
ment
attained
by
sociologists,
of
whom
he
is
one,
has
inhibited
any
wish
they
may
have
felt
to
challenge
the
criminal
law
directly
in
these
areas.
Since
he
is
also
a
barrister
he
is
in
a
strong
position
to
make
amends.
Titular
extravagance
is
fortunately
cancelled
by
textual
sobriety.
Or
is
it?
Some
readers,
especially
legislators,
may
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