Post Traumatic Stress
| DOI | 10.1177/026455059304000105 |
| Date | 01 March 1993 |
| Published date | 01 March 1993 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
to ’challenging offending behaviour’ as
if such behaviour stands in its own
right without rational explanation or
recourse to contextual experience. Phil
Clare clearly demonstrates links bet-
ween
external eyents and individual of-
fending. So whither the Probation
Service in this context?
ACCOUNT Surviving Intact?
The actualities of Hillsborough make
disturbing reading, although our
Post
children appear to have survived intact.
Two speak of their experience of be-
Traumatic
ing dragged over the fence and of be-
ing hauled onto the pitch where they
act as stretcher bearers, a scene often
Stress
witnessed on TV since. Our son is in-
terviewed some weeks later and shown
a police video set
Terry Crolley of Merseyside
up in the living
room. He is asked not only to try to
Probation Service’s
identify some of the people who died,
Research, Evaluation and
or those whose lives he tried to save,
Information Unit gives his
but also to point out any other sur-
experience of Hillsborough
vivors he knows so that they too can
and questions the validity
be interviewed. This experience is so
of a punitive
traumatic he decides not to
response to
say that
offenders surviving disasters
one of his sisters is in the foreground
lest she too is subject to the same hor-
not of their own
making
rendous procedure,
There is another story. It is of tur-
Phil Clare’s article, ’Post Traumatic
moil and silence. It is of parents, like
Stress Disorder: Offender, Victim and
myself, who sit at home watching and
Colleague as Survivors’ (December
listening to the unfolding horror. The
1992), is rightly intended to be an ob-
anxiety, stress and utter helplessness is
jective account of what happens to vic-
compounded by the never-ending ring
tims of disasters.
I received it, however,
of the telephone from relatives or
as a painful reminder of the experience
friends inquiring for news. They are
of my three teenage children at
concerned and well-meaning. Yet they
Hillsborough, and as a parent...
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