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22 Prob. J. 1 (1975)

handle is hein.journals/probj22 and id is 1 raw text is: probation journal PUBLISHED BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PROBATION OFFICERS EDITED BY LESLIE HERBERT, MBE, MA Price 25p (free to members and associates) £1.00 per annum COMMENT Cost-effectiveness Fieldworkers and research workers are uneasy bed-mates, perhaps not the least reason being the lengthy gestation period before their union produces any results. Nevertheless, sometimes the fruits of research are worth waiting for and in this context, we note with interest three recent Home Office research reports on Social Work in Prison, Impact, and Social Work in the Environment. Social Work in Prison is reviewed later in this issue. This report will help welfare officers really to believe in themselves and should make the prisons sit up and take notice. The IMPACT experiment has been the subject of a previous article, and is also considered in a further article in this issue. Social Work in the Environment takes its place alongside Perry's appraisal of social inquiry reportsby placing traditional areas of work under the hyper-critical research microscope-and we all know the feelings that Perry has aroused! In short, this particular Home Office report demonstrates that the ability of probation officers to alleviate the environmental stresses that had con- tributed to their client's criminality was slight. It should, however, be noticed that the survey was made in 1964-66, when individual casework techniques were being used perhaps more than at any other time. Since then, various experiments have led to much more community involvement, which may show very different results. .It has been observed elsewhere that these latest Home Office research reports show that probation officers are most successful in the area of work which is most unpopular among the Service as a whole-and least effective in the sphere of work which is generally most popular and in vogue. One thing is certain: for too long, probation officers have been credited on a subjective level with doing a wonderful job. The critical docu- ments referred to here will surely be the first of many which will ruthlessly examine our cost-effectiveness. Crime Prevention NACRO is to be congratulated on organisating a . series of six day conferences on the prevention of crime. Each conference has a specialist theme-and over the whole series, professionals will attend from archi- tecture, the media, education, hous- ing, medicine and leisure amenities. There is a link group attending all the conferences (including represen- tatives from the Service and NAPO)

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