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20 Prob. 65 (1973)

handle is hein.journals/probj20 and id is 1 raw text is: PROBATIDNVol 20 No 3 November 1973 Journal of the National Association of Probation Officers - 20p Edited by Leslie Herbert, MBE, MA COMMENT Delinquency, Normality and Future Shock CHANGE has often been seen as the prerogative of the progressive and the resilient. Resistance to it has been equally often castigated as a sign of age, conservatism, sloth and obsolescence. Certain factors, such as the rate and extent of change, have not always been understood or taken into account. If and when they are, however, we may begin to understand that such resis- tance is not just the onset of moribundity but could be a necessary part of the instinct for survival: a refusal to be engulfed by what the instinct, if not the intellect, identifies as future shock. It may be necessary in this context to examine how far the Probation Service is being pushed by the pressure of change into a state bordering on such shock and whether or not some change of emphasis from the psycho- analytical assessment to a more sociological scepticism concerning the authority of normality is a necessary defence mechanism, if not a recognition of error. Does the present trend of some probation officers towards criticism of our social institutions imply over-identification with the delinquent or realisation that therapy in isolation may be largely abortive? Are the authorities, with the CJA (1972) provisions, colluding with this view whilst providing all aid short of help? Perhaps there is a realisation that the environment manufactures inadequacy. We may in essence not want to CONTENTS COMMENT . . . . . . . Page 65 STYLE OF MANAGEMENT' IN THE PROBATION AND AFTER-CARE SERVICE W. R. Weston . . . 69 THE BORSTAL/LIVERPOOL COMMUNITY WORKSHOP, H. N. Loughran . 74 TOO MANY CHIEFS, K. L. Howe . . . . . . 77 THAT'S UNEMPLOYMENT-YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING! , A Group on a Course . . . . 81 COMBINED OPERATIONS (INTERMEDIATE TREATMENT), Mike Carpenter and Fred Gibbens . . . . . 84 TOWARDS SHORTER PROBATION ORDERS, Rob George . . 87 COMMUNITY SERVICE-A CASE STUDY, Miss P. F. Groves . . 89 PROBATION FORUM . . . . . . . 91 BOOK REVIEWS . . . . . . . - 92