Resources
| DOI | 10.1177/026455059103800321 |
| Date | 01 September 1991 |
| Published date | 01 September 1991 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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RESOURCES
Reports,
notes
of
videos
and
information
packs
etc,
suitable
for
digesting
n
this
column
will
be
welcomed.
Drugs
Law
Guide
Drugs
and
the
Law
(August
1991)
by
Director
of
Release,
Jane
Goodsir,
is
a
guide
to
drugs
legislation,
aimed
at
pro-
fessionals
working
with
drug
users
and
young
people.
As
well
as
explaining
the
Misuse
of Drugs
Act
19 71
and
the
Drug
Trafficking
Offences
Act
1986,
it
makers
clear
the
rights
of
the
individual
in
police
investigations.
Available
as
a
wall
chart
at
£4.50
plus
p
&
p
or
as
a
booklet
at
~1.20
plus
p
&
p.
From
Release
Publications,
388
Old
Street,
London
EC1V
9LT,
071-729
5255.
Motor
Project
Video
Walsall
Motor
Access
Project,
a
NACRO
initiative
for
teenagers
to
combat
car
crime,
has
produced
a
20
minute
video
to
publicise
its
work,
designed
for
showing
both
to
agency
staff
and
to
young
people.
The
first
half
features
enthusiastic
participants
talking
about
their
experience
of
learning
car
mechanics,
driving
skills
and
banger
racing.
The
second
half
asks
local
peo-
ple
what
impact
they
feel
the
project
has
had and
why
it
was
set
up.
From
Chris
Dare,
114-116
Newhall
Street,
Willenhall,
Walsall
(0922
720676),
price
~21.28.
Racism
in
Court
As
part
of
the
training
now
required
for
magistrates
and
court
staff
in
racial
awareness,
the
BBC
offers
Evidence
Unseen
(30
minute
video
plus
notes)
tackling
racial
awareness
and
magistrates
courts.
Black
and
white
magistrates
from
London,
Leicester
and
Sheffield
consider
differential
senten-
cing
of
black
defendants.
’Analysis
of
a
dramatised
sequence
raises
awareness
of
cross-cultural
misunderstandings
which
commonly
occur
in
interac-
tions,
in
any
legal
contest
between
white
people
and
people
of
Caribbean
background.’
.’
Price
~5~
from
BBC
Educational
Developments,
PO
Box
50,
Wetherby,
West
Yorkshire S23
7EZ.
Training
for
Murder
Victim
Support
offers
guidelines
for
Supporting
Families
of
Murder
Vic-
t~M~,
providing
information
and
advice
on
setting
up
a
support
service
and
for
training
personnel,
in
the
light
of
research
published
in
1990
on
the
in-
sensitive
treatment
of
and
inadequate
information
given
to
relatives.
From
NAVSS,
Cranmer
House,
39
Brixton
Road,
London
LSW9
6DZ
at
15.
Prisoners’
Families
Sentenced
by
Association
by
Joe
Blake,
co-ordinator
of
the
Crumlin
Road
Visitors
Centre
in
Belfast,
is
a
guide
for
practitioners
working
with
the
children
and
families
of
prisoners
to
the
difficulties
they
face
from
the
point
of
arrest,
intended
to
be
used
in
tandem
with
Shirley
Cooklin’s
From
Arrest
to
Release
(1989).
A
training
pack
and
board
game
is
also
available.
From
Save
the
Children,
17
Grove
Lane,
London
SE5
8RD
at
&4.50
(guide
only)
or
110
(complete
set).
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