in parliament
| Published date | 01 March 1968 |
| Date | 01 March 1968 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455056801400107 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
To make things pleasant during the supervision period, we naturally try to get
on well with our client. This tendency towards ingratiation may well lead us to
ignore the &dquo; badness &dquo; of the client. After all, he is usually a client because he is
delinquent. To ignore his anti-social characteristics is to ignore an integral part
of his personality. In the long run, this will probably harm him, for we are not
really bringing his &dquo; badness &dquo; out into the open and helping him to work out
his life without resort to crime. It would be disastrous if we were creating &dquo; good
little Robin Hood
&dquo;
types
instead of honest and useful citizens.
So the morning post, with its letter from John, provided me with an exercise
in introspection, the like of which we are seldom permitted, even with the benefit
of good case-work supervision.
in parliament
WITH THE Criminal Justice Act passed, Mr. Jenkins passed on too. He changed
seats with Mr. Callaghan, and so far we have not seen him in action very much
on the &dquo; Home front &dquo;. Like the rest of his ministerial colleagues he has been
preoccupied with the aftermath of devaluation.
The Criminal Justice Act marked an important step forward, and attention
is focussing more on implementing that change rather than planning the next
step. Not unnaturally the strength of the probation service has been a subject
of some concern.
THE STRENGTH OF THE PROBATION SERVICE
In November the Rt. Hon. Geoffrey Lloyd (Con. Sutton Coldfield) asked the
Home Secretary about the recruitment situation. He was told that during the
first 10 months of 1967, 196 trained and 104 untrained officers were appointed,
producing net increases of 99 and 61, respectively. 360 students were expected
to be available for appointment before the end of 1968. The Home Secretary
felt the marked improvement in recruitment to training, which began in the
second half of 1966, was being maintained, and that while the net increase in
strength...
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