Working with Female Offenders: Beyond ‘Alternatives to Custody’?Worrall,, Anne
doi: 10.1093/bjsw/19.2.77pmid: N/A
Abstract Developments in the Probation Service in the 1980s have been dominated by the rhetoric of ‘Alternatives to Custody’. At the same time, there has been an increasing awareness of gender biases within the criminal justice system. This article reports on research into the attitudes of probation officers and female offenders and explores the implications of these for future work with women by the Service. This content is only available as a PDF. Author notes She has now joined the Department of Applied Social Studies and Social Work at the University of Keele. © 1989 British Association of Social Workers
Thomas William Cramp, Almoner: The Forgotten Man in a Female OccupationSackville,, Andrew
doi: 10.1093/bjsw/19.2.95pmid: N/A
Abstract This paper uses archive sources to reconstruct the activities of a pioneer almoner who had the unique distinction of being the only man in what at that time was a female occupation. Against the background of an account of the development of almoning as an occupation, it examines both the hospital work and the involvement in his professional association of Mr Thomas William Cramp, the Almoner at the Metropolitan Hospital, London, from 1902 to 1923. The paper also questions why Mr Cramp has been written out of the great majority of historical accounts of almoning/medical social work. This content is only available as a PDF. © 1989 British Association of Social Workers
Marriage in LiteratureWilson,, Kate;Ridler,, Anne
doi: 10.1093/bjsw/19.2.111pmid: N/A
Abstract The surface which marriages customarily present to the world is often misleading. Indeed, one of the central paradoxes in this most intimate of relationships is that although almost everybody has some personal and immediate experience of it, and although there is a vast array of social research that has looked at marriage from the outside, we do not in fact know much—other than from our personal experience—about marriage from the inside. As Mount (1982), in a review of the experience of marriage and the family in history, comments: It is the essence of marriage that it is private and apart from the rest of society. Its ‘selfishness’ or ‘exclusiveness’ is not its undertone but its heart and soul (p. 188). This content is only available as a PDF. Author notes Her New and Selected Poems was published last year by Faber and Faber. © 1989 British Association of Social Workers
Social Work Practice: An Introduction, Veronica Coulshed, Basingstoke, Macmillan Education, BASW Practical Social Work Series, 1988. 146 pp. ISBN 0 333 45245 3, £15.00 cased, ISBN 0 333 45246 1, £5.95 paperBamford,, Terry
doi: 10.1093/bjsw/19.2.165pmid: N/A
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