Reviews : Approaches to Welfare PHILIP BEAN AND STEWART MACPHERSON(EDS) RKP, 1983; £6.96; pb; pp 293
| Author | Brian Williams |
| Published date | 01 December 1983 |
| Date | 01 December 1983 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/026455058303000413 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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Approaches to Welfare
uncontentious when
first introduced, has become
PHILIP BEAN AND STEWART MACPHERSON(EDS)
such a political football that the 1980 Social
RKP, 1983; £6.96; pb; pp 293.
Security Acts cut it substantially without causing
Assembled
to mark
the retirement of a professor,
much of a fuss.
this collection contains some arcane, in-house
Only devoted students of post-war Social
debating and some slight, duriful
Administration will read all these
essays. Much
of
essays, but they
it, though, will be of interest to practitioners in
contain many ideas, facts and arguments of use to
probation and social services. Some of the authors
practitioners.
attempt to encapsulate
BRIAN WILLIAMS
cases argued at greater
length elsewhere, including Prof. Pinker
Probation
on
the
Officer, Darlington
difficulties of integrating theory and practice,
Robert Holman
Women’s
on
the total immersion method of
Imprisonment: A Study in
community work and Philip Bean on the intel-
Social Control
lectual origins of state welfare. Of these, only
PAT CARLEN
Holman manages to combine brevity with read-
RKP; 1983
ability.
Recent years have seen the publication ot a
Others challenge the dominance of Fabian
number of books and research articles outlining the
ideology in Social Administration since 1945. Paul
attitudes and responses of the various sections of
Wilding and Gillian Pascall point out that poverty
the criminal justice system to women offenders.
should not have needed rediscovery in the sixties,
This book, based on research in Comton Vale,
and that Marxist and feminist contributions had
Scotland’s only women’s prison, attempts, through
been ignored prior to 1968. Stewart MacPherson
a series of interviews with prisoners,...
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