Help for Children in Custody
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gill Stewart (Lancaster University Ghana), David Smith (0000-0002-8202-8108, Lancaster University Ghana) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 302-310 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047678 |
| OpenAlex | W2299423250 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
A recent survey of children in custody provides some evidence to inform the debate on whether probation officers should withdraw from working in prisons. Levels of probation staffing in institutions housing children are already very low, and from the survey it appears that in general these children receive little help, at any rate of a kind that could reasonably be described as social work. This may be a particular cause for concern since the survey showed that many of these children had had difficult and disruped lives before the current sentenus. It is suggested that it is doubtful if the present policy of encouraging prison officers to assume a general helping function is a feasible one
Child custody · Criminology · Function (biology) · Prison · Staffing · Work (physics) · Child Abuse and Trauma · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Engineering · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2020 (29) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |