Recent Book: The Lawyer and the Social Condition: Guide to the Social Services 1981
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X8105400327 |
| Published date | 01 July 1981 |
| Author | R. Crawshaw |
| Date | 01 July 1981 |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
to Bob Lock who served for much of his
police service as a constable "gaoler"
there.
This is not a history in the accepted
sense but most policemen will recognize
the authenticity of the many anecdotes it
contains.
It succeeds in bringing to life the
"beaks". lawyers. policemen and women
and the wide variety of famous and
infamous defendents who have appeared
there.
It makes good bedtime reading. A
book most of us will enjoy. I certainly
did. M. D.
COMRIE
CLIFfORD
E. M.
CHATTERTO'i:
What. When and
HOII'
in the Juvenile Court.
Barry Rose (Publishers) Limited. £5.95.
Presented in loose comb binding for easy
thumbing this I29-page booklet sets out
to make the complex processes of the
juvenile court easier for those presiding.
officiating or appearing in some other
professional guise.
The
author
has
skilfully
and
thoroughly explained the law on each
aspect separately and followed the
explanation
by
the
text
of the
announcement to be made by the
chairman of the juvenile panel in large
type. I found this unusual format initially
offputting but feel that once understood
it achieves the object of giving
information required in a court situation
quickly and simply.
Its
use
should
avoid
those
embarrassing delays which sometimes
occur whilst packs of cards are shuffled
by an inexperienced chairman searching
for the appropriate announcement.
However. experienced juvenile panel
chairmen might view the length of
explanation given in the booklet as being
too patronising.
The statements of law are of
undoubted value. However. since
publication there has been an adjustment
of the minimum age of males eligible for
unruly certificates from 14 to 15 years
thus highlighting aproblem often
encountered by authors of legal
dissertations.
In my viewthe booklet is more suitable
to members of the juvenile panel than for
court clerks or anyone else. Nevertheless
it is a useful publication even for this
limited audience. G. A.
HARRIS
Guide to the Social Services 1981(69th Edition)
The Family Welfare Association £5.50 and 75p postage and packing.
This publication is a reference book
designed to provide"
...
an easy source of
information
about
the social services".
The guide first appeared in 1882 as the
introduction to the first edition of the
"Charities Register and Digest". A year
later it was published separately as
"How
to Help Cases of Distress", and
sub-titled"
A handy reference book for
almoners, almsgivers and others".
Asomewhat muted debate has been
carried on, both within and without the
police service, during recent years
about
the extent to which the police can be
regarded as a social service (e.g. T.
306
Naylor and M. Punch "The Police: A
Social Service", Nell' Society 24 No. 554,
358-61). This debate is not joined by the
publishers of the Guide who define social
services as "
...
services
...
provided by
the community to meet certain individual
needs". It excludes those services which
are provided for a profit. Certain services
that might be considered "social", e.g.
Fire Brigades and Public Libraries, have
been omitted on grounds of space".
Nevertheless, regardless of academic
debate or questions of definition,
individual members of the public do use
the police as a social service and
July
/98/
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