Reviews : Welfare Law and Order: A critical introduction to law for social workers. PETE ALCOCK AND PHIL HARRIS The MacMillan Press, 1982; pb; pp 198
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058303000316 |
| Date | 01 September 1983 |
| Published date | 01 September 1983 |
| Author | Paul Falkingham |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
an
approach has exposed considerable divisions
there are complex and even contradictory
and extremes within the Police Service nationally
pressures at work withm society which have a
and, although refraining from disclosure, the
consequential impact on the nature and
aggressive and embattled posture of Chief
development of the law. It is this analytic
Constable Anderton comes immediately to mind.
framework, as much as the summary of relevant
Finally, the book confirms the inherent
legislation up to 1981, which prompts the view
limitations of policing policy within a backcloth
that the book is also relevant to qualified and
of urban deprivation and structural inequality.
practising workers, who need to continue to
Quoting Lord Scarman, ’Good policing will be
analyse and debate at a professional level the
of no avail, unless we also tackle and eliminate
problems and contradictions they encounter in
basic flaws in our society’. Unfortunately, these
their work.
basic flaws are the life experience of many young
PAUL FALKINGHAM
blacks and no account of
bobbies on the beat can
Probation Officer, Leeds
compensate for the effects of racism, unemploy-
ment and urban deprivation.
IAN GASCOIGNE
Probation Officer, Loughborough
Gaskin
JAMES MACVEIGH
Jonathan Cape, 1982; hb; pp 261; £7.50
Welfare Law and Order: A
critical
‘Our work
in this case will go down in the annals
introduction to law for social
of social work history as one of sustained and
workers.
genuine care ...’ Graham Gaskin, allowed access
PETE
ALCOCK
AND
PHIL HARRIS
to the records of his childhood spent in the care
The MacMillan Press, 1982; pb; pp 198
of
Liverpool Social Services, was so incensed at
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the irony of this comment that he ’liberated’ the
The authors define what
this book
is and is not.
file. The file had to be returned, under threat of
It is introductory, not a law textbook in the
prosecution, and Graham attempted to gain
conventional sense, and is produced for welfare
...
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