Reviews : Facing Physical Violence Glynis M Breakwell Routledge/British Psychological Society, 1989; £5.95 pbk; 114pp
| Published date | 01 June 1989 |
| Date | 01 June 1989 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/026455058903600209 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
placements there is a risk that we
pro~Ie, a loss of sense of practitioner
devalue the work of practical work
autonomy and the reduced sense of job
groups and open the door to a two-tier
satisfaction when
professional staff feel
scheme. Perhaps somewhere there is a
they are being treated like navvies. But
tape to be made which looks more posi-
the biggest pressure is the awareness
tively at the more mundane but
by all that the Home Office’s intention
invaluable part of community service
to use the Probation Service as a Trojan
schemes. The most worrying thing of
horse to influence the sentencing prac-
all, however, (and no criticism of this
tice of the courts shows very little sign
tape) is that so many Services have
of success.
been prepared to spend relatively large
Because of this failure, Dr Coker
sums on promo tapes for community
argues strongly in part three for a
service while there remains practically
greater sharpening up of the role of the
nothing available about any other
Service. We
should be a national ’Com-
aspects of our work.
munity Supervision Service’ with a
Graham Nicholls
clear separation and rationalisation of
SPO, Workshop
the Orders we supervise into Proba-
tion,
Day Centre,
Hostel
and
Probation Objectives:
Community Service (with other pro-
A
Management View
posals for prison and civil work). The
John Coker
purpose of this prescription was
UEA
Probation Monographs, 1988,
implied rather than spelled out, I felt.
£3.50 pbk, 41pp.
He seemed to have previously suggest-
There are three distinct parts to this
ed that a prime objective of diverting
monograph: the sequence did not flow
from custody could never succeed with
well for me (I had to read it twice to
the courts as they are presumably con-
trace the flow), and it served as a
stituted, so I infer that he proposed
reminder of how difficult it is to con-
struct a coherent piece of writing by
intended to enable us to succeed as a
extracting
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