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The choice of initial web search strategies: a comparison between Finnish and American searchers
A Study of Certain Blood Tests which reveal Colloidal Abnormalities in Rheumatic Conditions
"In the guise of science": literature and the rhetoric of 19th-century English psychiatry
'In the guise of science' : literature and the rhetoric of 19th-century English psychiatry
'Out of Care' 30 years on.
The article recalls the writing of Out of Care, often regarded as a key text for juvenile justice policy and practice in England and Wales in the 1980s. It dispels some misconceptions about the bookâs arguments, showing that it argued for a âwelfareâ rather than a âjusticeâ approach to juvenile offending, and offered a set of prescriptions for face-to-face practice as well as for a critical understanding of the local juvenile justice system. The article acknowledges some contradictions and ambiguities in Out of Care, but shows that it is a mistake to treat it as advocating minimum (as opposed to targeted) intervention, or as arguing that the content of direct work with young people is unimportant. The article traces some of the processes by which the ideas in the book were made available to audiences of practitioners and policy-makers, and how changes in policy in particular local authorities encouraged a wider process of reform