What Next For Men? Trefor Lloyd and Tristan Wood (Eds) Working With Men, 1996; pp 284; £14.95 pbk
| Published date | 01 December 1996 |
| Author | Stephen Hornby |
| Date | 01 December 1996 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455059604300417 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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during
the
period
of
detention,
sentence
review
procedures,
and
the
range
of
release
and
supervision
arrangements
within
which
the
paradoxical
priorities
of
care
and
punishment
are
negotiated
and
operationalised.
I
was
particularly
interested
in
the
references
to
the
education/training
deficits
of
may
of
the
staff
engaged
in
this
complex
practice
and
the
deprofessionalisation
and
erosion
of
the
’social
work’
elements
of
the
Service.
Chapters
Three
and
Four
outline
the
principal
findings
from
Boswell’s
two
empirical
studies.
The
first
of
these
two
chapters
focuses
primarily
on
key
areas
of
practice
within
the
institutions
and
draws
upon
interview
material
with
both
’inmates’
and
staff.
The
overall
impression
that
is
gleaned
leaves
the
reader
asking
discomforting
questions
concerning
the
rationale,
efficacy
and
legitimacy
of
long
terms
of
confinement
for
many
’Section
53
offenders’.
Such
doubts
are
confirmed
by
the
case
study
material
particularly
in
Chapter
Four
where
the
offenders’
backgrounds
are
profiled.
Boswell
found
that
72%
of
her
sample
had
histories
of
abuse
and
when
significant
loss
is
added
to
the
equation
91 %
of
the
childhoods
studied
were
scarred.
Chapter
Five
engages
what
is
perhaps
an
over-ambitious
task
in
attempting
to
collate
a
knowledge
base
and
explore
the
hypothesised
patterns
of
complex
inter-
relationship
between
experience
of
abuse,
loss,
trauma
and
stress
and
there
manifestations
in violent
behaviour,
alongside
an
examination
of
various
possibilities
for
’treatment’,
support,
counselling
and
therapy.
A
detailed
case
study
serves
to
conclude
the
chapter
and
graphically
represents
the
author’s
concerns.
Finally,
Chapter
Six
considers
strategies
for
change
and
locates
the
issues
within
a
broader
European
and
Canadian
policy
and
practice
perspective.
It
will
come
as
little
surprise
to
probation
officers
and
social
workers
that
practice
outwith
England
and
Wales
in
generally
more
progressive,
responsible
and
child
centred.
The
author
uses
the
comparative
analysis
to
complement
her
own
research
findings
and
makes
a
series
of
proposals
for
progress
and
improvement
and
specifies
the
need
for
more
focused
and
detailed
research.
Perhaps
Boswell’s
book
is
over
ambitious
in
the
breadth
of
its
coverage.
It
inevitably
raises
more
questions
than
it
answers
but
it
unquestionably
makes
a
valuable
contribution
to
the
’youth
justice’
literature.
However,
the
title
of
the
book
puzzles
me
with
its
emphasis.
Dangerous
or
endangered
children?
Dangerous
children
or a
dangerous
and
woefully
inadequate
set
of
institutional
arrangements?
z
Barry
Goldson
Department
of
Sociology,
Social
Policy
and
Social
Work
Studies,
University
of
Liverpool
What
Next
For
Men?
Trefor
Lloyd
and
Tristan
Wood
(Eds)
Working
With
Men,
1996;
pp
284;
£14.95
pbk
The
cover
of
this
book
presents
media
headlines
in
lurid
orange
to
remind
us
how
much
has
been
written
about
the
problem
of
men
in British
society.
’Men’
and
’Problem’
have
almost
become
synonyms,
especially
to
some
of
the
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