Reviews : Working Your Way to the Bottom: The Feminization of Poverty HILDA SCOTT Pandora Press, 1984, £4 95, pb, pp 164
| Author | Angela Brown |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058503200419 |
| Published date | 01 December 1985 |
| Date | 01 December 1985 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
is shorter, and covers more
ground, than the other
Those who enjoy an escapist read will not find
book, it says less about the political background,
it here Firmly rooted in the here and now, the
though it tell mgly includes in its appendices the text
characters ambitions are narrow and confined to
of a UN
Convention on torture and UK
legislation
what is possible, but they work, sweat and bleed,
on
terrorism It is pnnted on better paper in deai er
victims but not losers, inbred with a sense of
type, and is probably the better value
purpose which drives them on
BRIAN WILLIAMS
These stories are not part of a feminist tirade
Teesside Polytechnic
agamst men They too are portrayed as victims of
their own conditioning Cliff, the sociology
Reactions to Crime: the Public, the
lecturer, is sound on ideology but needs a straight
Police, Courts and Prisons
talkmg woman to help him acknowledge his failure
DAVID FARRINGTON AND JOHN GUNN (EDS)
as a father Jason, the ghetto teacher, buoyed up
Wiley, 1985, £23 00, hb,
by his own certainties while Lacey, his long time
pp 182
This book
colleague and companion, wonders if he really can
is a collection of
essays on research
deliver his
mto
promise to the deprived kids he teaches
various aspects of cnme Its scope is much
and
wider than most such collections As
injects with his own zeal Graham, the union
an
example,
organiser, injail while his wife cares for their baby
one essay is about the cognitive process that
and the
determines the
people left behind, tending the
reaction of bystanders when they
garden to
feed them and sometimes hating him for his view
see a crime being committed Another essay
that
examines the evidence supporting lighter
prison is ’time to think’
The women in the book are black, ordinary and
sentencing (labelling theory) and neither is found
believable They
to be entirely vindicated Other
get tired, angry and disgusted,
essays cover the
then
pohtlcl,>atIOn
of delinquency, police
...
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