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Beyond reasoning and understanding - the everyday understanding of crime
- Author:
- COLLETT Steve
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, December 1993, pp.184-187.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Argues that the extensive coverage and analysis of the recent James Bulger murder and convictions has seriously set back the prospects for developing more effective and human measures for the broad range of offenders.
Re-writing the job: a sceptical look at competences
- Author:
- HAYMAN Vic
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, December 1993, pp.180-183.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Warns against the forthcoming introduction of competencies to the probation world, which could reduce a professional role to a banal, restrictive and transient list of tasks more suited to the production of technicians rather than professionals.
Listening to the children - the impact of the Children Act 1989 on the work of Family Court welfare teams
- Authors:
- CANTWELL Brian, TRINDER Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, December 1993, pp.189-192.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Report the initial findings of a research survey of court welfare work in Humberside. The Children Act's requirement upon courts to have regard to the ascertainable wishes and feelings of the child in contested applications has clearly placed renewed practitioner emphasis on ascertaining children's wishes, but there remains considerable variation in interpretation of 'good practice'.
Risk assessment in child protective services - an evaluation of the Child at Risk Field System
- Authors:
- DOUECK Howard J., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 8(4), December 1993, pp.446-467.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Presents the results of an evaluation of the Child at Risk Field System, currently in operation in four states in the USA, considered by some to be one of the more comprehensive risk assessment models developed to date.
Expanding the role of program evaluation in social welfare policy analysis
- Author:
- UNRAU Yvonne A.
- Journal article citation:
- Evaluation Review, 17(6), December 1993, pp.653-662.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Program evaluation is integral to the policy analysis process in social services. Increasingly, program administrators and policymakers rely on program evaluation results for making micro and macro-level decisions about client services. This article examines the role of program evaluation in relationship to several dimensions of policy analysis and suggests that program evaluation is most persuasive as a component of the policy process when its role is clearly understood. Such clarity can be achieved by using the program mandate to guide evaluation activity and including frontline practitioners in developing program evaluation models.
Domestic violence: old crime, sudden interest
- Author:
- STELMAN Andrew
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, December 1993, pp.193-198.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Reviews recent belated attention to abusive adult relationships and the practice and prosecution implications if women are to be properly protected and empowered. Intervention will fail unless programmes for victim survivors and perpetrators run in tandem, together with a firm resolve to prosecute rather than divert.
Evaluating social service delivery configurations
- Author:
- HIDALGO-HARDEMAN Olivia M.
- Journal article citation:
- Evaluation Review, 17(6), December 1993, pp.603-620.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Presents the use of an eclectic approach to the evaluation of services to the homeless. The method used combines social network analysis and multiattribute technology to allow for the development of a criterion for the evaluation of an entire collection of services for a geographic area. The factors being considered are the description of the service delivery configuration, the criteria for evaluation, and a strategy for future planning and monitoring.
Congruent behaviour: male worker and sex offender
- Author:
- PERRY Ted
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, October 1993, pp.140-142.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Based on experiences of working with sex offenders at HMP Whatton, the author argues that men need to support each other in restructuring their own relationships at the same time as they attempt to work uncollusively with male perpetrators of sexual abuse.
Giving hope
- Authors:
- POLLARD Caroline, PROVOST Sue
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, October 1993, pp.136-139.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Describes the use of Solutions Based Brief Therapy with probation clients.
Physical violence to staff
- Author:
- SHERIDAN Mary
- Journal article citation:
- Probation Journal, October 1993, pp.143-146.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Reports research into staff perceptions and experience of violence in one Probation area, identifies shortcomings in training and management and makes proposals for safer, more effective policy and practice.