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18 Prob. 1 (1972)

handle is hein.journals/probj18 and id is 1 raw text is: PROBATID HVol 18 No 1 March 1972 Journal of the National Association of Probation Officers - 20p Edited by Leslie Herbert, MBE, MA COMMENT Criminal Justice Bill IT is welcome news that Mr Mark Carlisle has promised to introduce an amendment at the Report Stage to limit the use of supervision orders with suspended sentences to the higher courts. As the Bill originally stood there was some danger the Magistrates' Courts might take advantage of the ability to pass consecutive sentences totalling more than six months, to make super- vision orders, but this will not now be possible-at least not initially. It would be undesirable to use the new power too freely until there has been time to assess its effectiveness, and it is best that it should be regarded at first as something of an experiment. If success is to be achieved it is essential that there should be stricter regard to the intention that the courts should first decide that in all the circumstances a sentence of imprisonment is unavoidable, and only then proceed to suspend it. Otherwise suspended sentences plus supervision will all too easily be imposed where probation orders would be appropriate. Taken as a whole the Bill represents a positive step in the right direction and it is obviously sensible that Community Service orders and Day Treatment Centres should be tried out experimently before being generally used. Naturally the Service is still preoccupied with the problem of increasing manpower quickly enough to cope with present and future tasks. It must con- CONTENTS COMMENT . . . . . . . . Page 1 BOOK REVIEWS . . . . . . . . 3 32 WHY DON'T PROBATION OFFICERS RUN CLIENT GROUPS?, Phyllida Parsloe 4 WORKLOAD REGULATION: THE CASE FOR PURPOSIVE ACTION, J. B. Chapman . . . . . . 8 SOMETHING OLD . . . SOMETHING NEW . . D. A. Mathieson 11 ASPECTS OF LEARNING AND PROBATION TREATMENT, Peter R. Day . 13 ONGOING CASEWORK IN 4 LOCAL PRISON, John Tracey . . . 18 THE NOTTINGHAM PRISONERS' FAMILIES PROJECT Mark Monger and John Pendleton . . . 20 THE PRACTITIONER AND THE ACADEMIC, Dr Elizabeth Edwards . . 21 THE PSYCHOPATH, R. McGregor . . . 25 PROBATION FORUM . . . . . . . 28

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