Reviews : Cornerstones: Anti-discriminatory Practice in Family Court Welfare Work Trigger Video and Workbook Inner London Probation Service, 1998; £65.00
| Date | 01 June 2000 |
| Published date | 01 June 2000 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455050004700220 |
| Author | Helen Scholar |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
characterised by administrative
decision-making, greater sentencing
diversity, the construction of sentencing
’packages’, centralisation of authority and
co-ordination of policy, growing
involvement of non-juridical agencies and
high levels of containment and control in
some sentencing programmes. The danger
is that the objective becomes neither
delivering welfare nor justice, but
developing the most cost-effective and
efficient way of managing the criminal
population.
The authors favour Strategy C which
is the principled approach, seeking to
protect the human rights of both offenders
and victims by means of rehabilitation,
Cornerstones: Anti-discriminatory
reintegration and restorative justice. The
Practice in Family Court Welfare
current system is adversarial, stigmatic
Work
and the ultimate goal is punishment. It is
Trigger Video and Workbook
carried out by a legal profession using a
Inner London Probation Service,
language most victims and offenders do
1998; £65.00
not understand. Participants are relegated
to ’pieces of evidence’. The victim is
Using video material in training is often
powerless and ignored, receives no
something of a risk - will people fall
apology, little compensation or ’healing’ .
asleep as they might in their armchairs in
Strategy C is a paradigm of justice which
front of the T.V.? Why are the characters
can address all these issues.
wearing those dreadful eighties hair
The road
styles? And family court welfare officers
to Strategy C is a hard one,
would never
with
carry out interviews like that,
many voices offering caution if not
would
outright ridicule, but the authors offer
they?
a
vision of the future which is obtainable.
The use of trigger videos (short,
This is not some idealistic wish-list. The
unresolved vignettes) as a stimulus for
complexity of the issues faced is
learning has a literature of its own, which
acknowledged. They handle the myriad
acknowledges that complaints about the
twists and turns of the argument
...
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