The Protection of Liberty I. N. STEVENS AND D. C. M. YARDLEY Basil Blackwell, 1982: pb: pp188
| Author | Dennis Clarke |
| Date | 01 September 1983 |
| Published date | 01 September 1983 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455058303000308 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
103
REFERENCES
1.
’Probation
and
Just
Deserts’,
Probation
Journal
(1983)
Vol 30
No
1 pp
17-21
2.
’New
Findings,
New
Views.
A
Note
of
Caution
Regarding
Sentencing
Reform’
in
(1979)
Hofstra
Law
Review,
7,
2,
243ff
3.
For
details
of Philpotts-Lancucki’s
follow-up
and
the
Cambridge
analysis,
see
the
British
Journal
of
Criminology,
1981,
October
21, 4,
357ff
4
The
figures
for
boys givenby
Philpotts
and
Lancucki
in
Home
Office
Research
Study
No. 53
seem
to
show
a
similar
pattern’
worse
than
average
reconviction-
rates
for
probation
for
probation
as
a
first-time
measure,
slightly
better
than
average
for
those
with
1-4
previous
convictions.
For
young
adult
males,
however,
their
figures
show
worse
than
average
rates
for
probation
irrespective
of
the
number
of
previous
convictions.
At Cambridge,
however,
we
did
not
have
access
to
enough
of the
data
to
analyse
them
as
thoroughly
as
the
figures
for
adults.
5.
i.e.
than
a statistician
would
expect
them
to
be,
when
allowing
for
type
of
offence.
6
See pp. 5-9 of the main
Report of the Departmental
Committee
on
the
Probation
Service
(Chairman:
Mr.
R
P.
Morison,
Q.C.)
(1962:
Cmnd.
1650.
HMSO,
London).
7
See
IMPACT,
Volume
II
(1976,
Home
Office
Research
Study
No.
36.
HMSO,
London),
and
especially
p
16.
8.
Reconviction-counting
is
accepted
practice
in
Poland
and
Hungary,
for
example.
9.
See, for example, pp.
184-6 of
Probation
Workby
Hilary
WalkerandBillBeaumont (1981, Blackwell,
Oxford).
10.
See,
for
example,
’A
Task-centred
Approach
to
Probation’
by
E.
M.
Goldberg
and
S.
S
Stanley
(1979)
in
Pressures
and
Change
in
the
Probation
Service
(ed.
J
F.
S.
King).
The
Home
Office
1848-1914:
From
Clerks
to
Bureaucrats
JILL PELLEW
Heinemann Educational Books, 1982;
pp269; hb;
£12.50
An
administrative
history
of
a
Victorian
government
department
may
not
immediately
spark
enthusiasm
into
the
heart
of
prospective
readers.
However,
Jill
Pellew
writes
in
a
refreshing
and
lively
style
which
conveys
her
obvious
enthusiasm
for
what
at
first
appears
singularly
uninteresting
subject
matter.
The
author
traces
the
changing
nature
and
role
of
the
ineteenth
century
civil
servant
in
terms
of
educational
and
social
background,
the
changing
structure
of
the
department
and
its
increasingly
new
responsibilities
and
functions.
These
changes
reflected
the
changing
role
of
the
state
from
one
of a traditionally
liberal
stance
of
non-interference,
to
one
which
assumed
increasingly
more
control
as
problems
of
urbanization,
population
growth
and
industrial
revolution
not
only
fuelled
cries
for
a
collectivist
state.
The
extension
of
state
control
through
the
establishment
of
key
inspectorates
is
examined
by
detailed
reference
to
the
workings
of
two
inspectorates:
Factory
and
Reformatory
and
Industrial
Schools.
The
period
examined
1848-1914
is
considered
of crucial
importance
in
laying
the
foundation
for
the
emergence
of a
professional
civil
service.
The
book
offers
a
fascinating
insight
into
the
evolution
of
modem
bureaucratic
government department
at
the
centre
of
policy
decisions
in
domestic
affairs.
J.
CATTERALL
Liverpool
The
Protection
of
Liberty
I.
N.
STEVENS AND D.
C.
M.
YARDLEY
Basil
Blackwell,
1982:
pb:
pp188
The
book
surveys
the
whole
field
of
civil
liberties
and
human
rights
in
the
United
Kingdom,
from
personal
liberty
to
public
order
and
from
freedom
of
information
to
the
protection
of
privacy.
By
placing
matters
in
a
historical
context
and
at
the
same
time
relating
them
to
recent
political
and
social
developments
it
gives
the
reader
a
wider
understanding
of
some
very
complex
issues
and
to
this
extent
it
succeeds.
However,
the
writers
confess
to
being
’devoid
of
a
partisan
spirit’
and
this
leads
to
a
blandness
of
presentation.
Where
a
strong
recommendation
for
reform
would
seem
appropriate
they
adopt
an
anlytical
stance
of
the
’on the one hand...
but
on the
other
hand’ school
which
is
only
superficially
fair
and
is
ultimately
dissatisfving.
DENNIS
CLARKE
Senior
Probation
Officer,
Penrith
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