Books
| Published date | 01 April 1938 |
| Date | 01 April 1938 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/026455053800201208 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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bation officer is likely to be concerned, up to the
Matrimonial Causes Act 1937.
SOCIAL WORK OF THE LONDON CHURCHES.
A book of this sort is essential to all who work
in
AN ACCOUNT
the
OF THE WORK OF THE
courts, who are not necessarily well acquain-
ted with the law, and this book is admirably adapted
METROPOLITAN VISITING
AND
RELIEF
to t’he purpose. Each act is explained in a way
ASSOCIATION, BY J. C. PRINGLE, Oxford
intelligible to the layman and the duties and func-
University Press, 5/-.
tions of each officer of the court are defined. He
must be either a
This
very well-informed, or a very con-
book, which is published under the auspices
fident magistrate who can afford to do without it.
of the Metropolitan Visiting and Relief Association,
and is written by the secretary of that society, is
CRIME AND THE COMMUNITY, BY LEO PAGE.
a plea for a return to the parochial system in Social
Service.
Mr. Pringle regrets the growth of the
Faber and Faber, 12/6.
Public Services, which have gradually taken over
It is
the life of the Parish. Although he does
usually
not make
agreed that there is no better way
of
the mistake of underrating their work of the
gauging the stage of civilization achieved by a
expert
civil servant he believes that their value
community than by inquiring what steps it takes for
can never
those of its members who have
be equal
no
to that of the &dquo; parson chap &dquo; who, in
place in its social
theory (but surely
structure, whose activities are regarded by the com-
very rarely, in fact) can regard
each
munity as a whole with aversion.
as a personal problem.
If the
As Mr. Pringle points
inquiry is carried out by an impartial ob-
out, the ideal arrangement
is that the civil
server, wh o is neither soured nor sentimentalised by
servant should apply his expert
what he has
knowledge to the
seen, the result assumes the dimensions
case which is being personally
of
helped
a sciemtific
by the Parish Priest. But...
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