Comment
| DOI | 10.1177/026455057502200101 |
| Published date | 01 March 1975 |
| Date | 01 March 1975 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
COMMENT
when individual casework
Cost-effectiveness
techniques
were being used perhaps more than
Fieldworkers and research workers
at any other time. Since then, various
are uneasy bed-mates, perhaps not
experiments have led to much more
the least reason being the lengthy
&dquo;community
involvement&dquo;,
which
gestation period before their union
may show very different results.
produces any results. Nevertheless,
.It has been observed elsewhere that
sometimes the fruits of research are
these latest Home Office research
worth waiting for and in this context,
reports show that probation officers
we note with interest three recent
are most successful in the area of
Home Office research reports on
work which is most unpopular among
Social Work in Prison, Impact, and
the Service as a whole-and least
Social Work in the Environment.
effective in the sphere of work which
Social Work in Prison is reviewed
is generally most popular and in
later in this issue. This report will
vogue.
help welfare officers really to believe
One thing is certain: for too long,
in themselves and should make the
probation officers have been credited
prisons sit up and take notice.
on a subjective level with &dquo;doing a
The IMPACT experiment has been
wonderful job&dquo;. The critical docu-
the subject of a previous article, and
ments referred to here will surely be
is also considered in a further article
the first of many which will ruthlessly
in this issue.
examine our cost-effectiveness.
Social Work in the Environment
takes its place alongside Perry’s
Crime Prevention
appraisal of social inquiry reports..by
placing traditional areas of work
NACRO is to be congratulated on
under the
hyper-critical research
organisating a . series of six day
conferences on the
microscope-and we all know the
prevention of
crime.
’
feelings that Perry has aroused
1 In
Each
short, this
conference has a
particular Home Oice
specialist
theme-and over the whole
report demonstrates that the...
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