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Refreshing Blast

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Vincent
DOI10.1177/026455059304000325
AuthorLiz Lucas
Date01 October 1993
Published date01 October 1993
Subject MatterArticles
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belief in the values and inherent
I suppose I may be denounced as a
goodness of the human race. A
’covert racist’ for venturing to question
renaissance is needed so that the artistic
the wisdom of this approach. I find it
nature of both Probation in particular
depressing how one kind of oppression
and Society in general can have
seems to breed another.
confidence to re-assert itself against the
’let’s measure everything’ mentality
Graham Beech
which eventually will bore everyone to
Probation Officer, Middlesex
death.
The Probation task has to be
underpinned by an informing spirit. This
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cannot be predicated on quantitative and
statistical principles alone, however
I write in appreciation of the whole of
important they
the
may be. The nature of the
July ’93 edition of Probation
human spirit is too elusive, will-o’-the-
.Iaurrtal, dealing as it did in an
wisp spontaneous and potentially free to
accessible and practice-based way with
capture its spiritual essence through
the crunch issues of equal opportunities
measuring lines and monitoring forms. It
and anti-discrimination. However, the
is this vision we need to capture
piece by John Devlin, ’Class Oppression,
qualitatively, so that the substance rather
as if it mattered’, was really welcome.
than the shadow of the human experience
My recent experience of teaching a
is asserted in all its richness and
DipSW Practice One student and finding
endeavour.
an examination of class (and poverty)
It is quality that makes quantity
...

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