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Report by Alastair Sinclair, senior probation officer, Fife County, on his study tour in Norway (1968); magazine article Regina v. Mary Bell, Daily Telegraph (1969); Hadden, Tom and Hillyard, Paddy, Justice in Northern Ireland: A Study in Social Confidence; press statement Drunkenness offenders: Five demands for Scotland (1974); A proopsed study of some serious traffic offenders in England and Wales.

Scope and Contents Reference material relating to criminal justice, probation, prisons, offenders, juvenile delinquency, and correctional services.Published material: The Rationalist, Vol XXXII, No. 10 (1962), journal of the Rationalist Association of Australia [articles on juvenile delinquency and religion and the child]; Dominon Bureau of Statistics, Juvenile Delinquents (1961); Focus, journal of the National Probation and Parole Association...

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Topics discussed include: an update on Lesbian Line; request for befrienders to fill in the rota; estimated cost for a computer for the service; funding for 'at home' events; and a new probationers training programme.

Scope and Contents Topics covered include: membership applications; grant from the Social Work Department; discussion of telephone calls; an update on the Working Party assessing the Gay Centre at Broughton Street; pamphlets from the Albany Society; and reports of violence at the New Town Hotel.Also attached is notes for those on probation which explain what is expected of probationers and what their commitment to the befriending service involves. Within the probationers notes the code of conduct,...

Scope and Contents The McClintock collection of material is made up of two major tranches, both received from the Faculty (later School) of Law, the first arriving in 1987 and the second in 2011. These are: Material at MSS 2581-2588 - McClintock Probation Studies - This is composed of numerous files and folders of information about: non-indictable assaults; non-indictable wounding; robbery; crimes of violence in the...

Scope and Contents Contains notes on a training meeting held 21/01/1979 which discusses silent calls, masturbatory calls, confidentiality, code of conduct and the compilation of call cards.Also includes: list of questions relating to Friend which appear to be questions asked of members or prospective members; a questionnaire used to assess if someone will be accepted as a member of the Befriending Team or if they require more information about certain subjects; advice to Befrienders on answering...

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Topics discussed include: membership updates; the use of the befriending room by non-befrienders or probationers; a new befriending room; and update on befriending pamphlet.

Handwritten notes are also included on a separate page from printed minutes.

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Contains: Befriending Team rotas; feedback concering the probationer's report form; membership lists and contact details; training records; correspondence relating to training and training events; questionnaires for applicants; and a copy of "Effective Reporting: the Role of the Reporting Officer" (1985).

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Volunteer application form and training and probationary forms for a Switchboard member. Their name has been redacted from the folder title.