A Danger to Themselves and to Others

Summary Some account is given of a small group of offender/patientsdefined as dangerous or potentially dangerous. Reasons are putforward in an attempt to explain an apparent reluctance to workwith such clients and the unease that often occurs when so doing.It is suggested that an approach may be required to such offender/patientswhich differs in some respects from more traditional modes oftreatment. Emphasis is placed upon the need for careful observationof material facts and events in the lives of such clients inaddition to the careful observation of the manifestations offeelings and attitudes which may give premonition of dangerousor potentially dangerous behaviour     

An Approach to Fieldwork Assessment

Summary Criticism has recently been made of the assessment of practicein social work education. Whilst acknowledging that some ofthis may be well deserved, the writers of this article describean attempt by staff at Leicester University's School of SocialWork to make the assessment of fieldwork practice more rigorous.     

Dangerous Clients: Further Observations on the Limitation of Mayhem

Correspondence to 1 Home Close Road, Houghton on the Hill, Leicester, LE7 9GT Summary The present contribution seeks to complement, up-date and amplifymaterial presented in an earlier paper in this Journal (Prins,1975) concerned with the management of dangerous and potentiallydangerous clients (in this case, offender-patients). An attemptis made to define the clientele considered to be at high riskof committing further acts of serious harm. Some brief observationsare made upon the nature of dangerous behaviour and risk. Theauthor then examines in more detail those factors and circumstancesthat may lead to the repetition of such behaviour and offerssome suggestions for its reduction. The paper's orientationis clinical rather than empirical or epidemiological.^{1, 2}     

Literature Review: An Abuse of some Substance?

Summary The intention in this review is to examine a small selectionof the literature on substance abuse and to assess to what extentit is a new phenomenon and a problem calling for legislativeaction. This intention accounts for the slightly capriciouschoice of title for the contribution.     

EMPLOYMENT FLUCTUATIONS AND THE MITIGATION OF RISK

The main ideas discussed in this paper can be briefly summarized as follows: First, although risk-mitigating arrangements — specifically, risk shifting in labor markets and risk pooling in product markets — suggest an explanation for certain specified features of macroeconomic fluctuations, risk-mitigating contractual arrangements are neither necessary nor sufficient to cause any particular disturbance to produce output and employment fluctuations. Second, given that a stochastic disturbance is going to affect output and employment, risk-mitigating arrangements can affect the amplitude of these fluctuations. Specifically, risk-mitigating arrangements reduce and reallocate the risks associated with stochastic disturbances. This process produces at least three effects on the variation in aggregate employment. These effects are changes in worker tolerance of employment fluctuations, increased variation in spot product prices, and relatively greater income variation for agents who probably have relatively high marginal spending propensities. In addition to these effects the existence of contractual markets has a potential effect on the form of the inference problem that agents face in determining the nature of disturbances in a context of incomplete information. Third, despite some similarities, a macroeconomic model that encompasses risk-mitigating arrangements differs in important ways from models that utilize the non-market-clearing approach to analysis of the determination of income and employment.