Reviews : Pontefract Handicraft Club and Day Activity Group 1960-1975 ANNE ROWNTREE West Yorkshire Probation and After-Care Service; £2.00; pb; pp 51
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058202900327 |
| Published date | 01 September 1982 |
| Date | 01 September 1982 |
| Author | Tim Powell |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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for
the
criminal
justice
system
founded
on
decriminalisation
and
reparation
in
place
of
custody.
An
interesting
book
well
worth
reading
and
certainly
essential
for
any
probation
library,
but
the
final
chapters
read
less
convincingly
not
because
they
lack
logic
or
merit
but
because
they
are
unlikely
to
win
political
favour
or
appeal
to
the
narrow
and
entrenched
outlook
of
the
nolicv
maker.
DAVID
REAICH
London
Pontefract
Handicraft
Club
and
Day
Activity
Group
1960-1975
ANNE
ROWNTREE
West
Yorkshire
Probation
and
After-
Care
Service;
£2.00;
pb;
pp
51
A
unique
study
of
the
genesis
and
development
of
the
Pontefract
Day
Activity
Group
written
by
the
daughter
of
its
prime
mover-Martin
Rowntree.
While
providing
an
example
of
what
can
be
achieved
by
dedication,
creativity
and
personal
commitment,
it
is
also
a
useful
study
of the
contextualisation
of
such
projects
within
the
probation
service.
A
book
to
be
read
particularly
by
mem-
hers
of
Dav
Centre
teams.
TIM
POWELL
Oxford
Day
Centre
Care
and
Discretion
HENRI
GILLER
AND
ALLISON
MORRIS
London:
Burnett
Books
Ltd,
1981;
£5.95;
pp
127
In
a
climate
of
opinion
in
which
poor
families
are
harrassed
and
sometimes
stigmatised
as
fraudulent
and
irrespons-
ible,
and
under
a
government
holding
and
reinforcing
extremist
views,
it
is
hard
to
aspire
to
objectivity
about
issues
created
for
social
work.
In
this
climate
existing
dilemmas
about
the
care
and
control
functions of
social
workers
become
even
more
testing.
To
have
the
’liberty
of
deciding
as
one
thinks
fit,
absolutely
or
within
limits’
(OED)
that
is,
to
exercise
discretion
is
not
an
unfamiliar
experience
in
social
work.
This
examination
of
the
decisions
made
m
dealing
with
delinquents,
based
on
interviews
with
social
workers,
who
took
the
decisions,
illustrates
social
workers’
typologies
of
cases
in
relation
to
often
painful
decisions
about
(a)
whether
to
remove
delinquent
children
from
their
homes,
and
(b)
the
effect
of
the
nature
of
their
offences.
The
aspect
of
the
book
which
stands
out
is
the
rela-
tionship
between
social
workers’
ideol-
ogies
and
their
practices.
The
authors
point
to
the
way
casework
ideology
is
recurrently
discovered
in
social
work
research;
in
practice
it
remains
ill-
defined
and
is
often
ignored.
They
review
studies
on
communication
problems
between
clients
and
social
workers
and
note
how
clients
tend
to
be
reclassified
as
these
difficulties
become
apparent.
Bridg-
ing
residential
and
non-residential
social
work,
the
author’s
study
of
child
care
legislation
provides
a
stimulating
review
of
the
literature
in
addition
to
their
own
findings,
and
is
therefore
recom-
mended.
PETER
R.
DAY
Hull
Review
Snippets
The
Mental
Health
Year
Book
1981/2
MIND;
£12.95;
pb;
pp
586
The
definitive
directory
of
statutory
bodies,
hospitals,
Community
Health
Councils,
Local
Authority
resources,
voluntary
agencies,
and
of
research
and
training
and
the
Law
relating
to
Mental
Health.
No
office
can
afford
to
be
with-
out
one.
Tolley’s
Social
Security
and
State
Benefits
J.
MATTHEWMAN
AND
N.
A.
D.
LAMBERT
Tolley’s
Publishing
Co,
1982;
£7.95;
pb;
pp
433
Everything
there
is
to
know
about
con-
tributory
and
non-contributory
benefits
in
easy
to
read
form.
Up
to
date
with
the
latest
scale
rates.
Must
be
the
most
com-
prehensive
of
its
kind.
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