"... hectoring and one-sided ...' Dear Sirs
| Date | 01 March 1982 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058202900116 |
| Published date | 01 March 1982 |
| Author | John Goslin |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
to take a prison wife to see her husband
’In the best interests ...’
is a case of &dquo;role strippmg&dquo; leaves me
Dear
somewhat aghast
Sir,
as
I
would have
Thank
thought that to most people it was seen
you for a very interesting and
in terms of offering
thought provoking ’Comment’ in Proba-
a service, perhaps a
tion Journal Vol 28 No
4 December 1981.
new service, and the proper utilisation
of
This whole issue of care and control
scarce professional resources. Burn-
ham comments that &dquo;role stripping&dquo; also
permeates our role as probation officers
has associations with the defeat &dquo;of the
to such an extent that your article
campaign for
seemed to
a single salary scale in
go some way in succinctly
1977&dquo;,
expressing the narrow divide (if there is
a
statement which leaves me
absolutely nonplussed
one) between the two strands of thinking
-
it would have
been
and
easier to have accepted this link
practice presently seen in our ser-
with the defeat of the French armies at
vice. Be this as it may, I was left won-
Waterloo rather than the example which
dering why you undermined for me the
he cites.
strength of your argument by unequi-
vocally ruling out the possibility of there
Mr Burnham’s views on specialisation
ever being a situation in which it would
and his perception that this approach will
be right to recommend custody. Why
lead to further &dquo;role stripping&dquo; similarly
should it be that in considering what is,
seem to be out of touch with the tenor
as you legitimately suggest, ’in the best
of current attitudes, for whilst not doubt-
interests’ of the defendant officers ought
ing the tension which does exist between
to
be blinkered in considering this
the specialist and non-specialist approach
dilemma?
to issues, I would draw his attention to
To think that we can consider what
the fact that some two-thirds of the
is &dquo;in the best interests of&dquo; the defen-
Loughborough sample indicated that
dant is in...
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