Women are universally disadvantaged and, along with black people, are targetted to be members of any underclass, suffering financial and social vulnerability, violence and deprivation. Workers often feel very inhibited in counteracting such powerful forces, especially when women clients appear to evade office help or to make continuously unwise choices. Karen Buckley and Chris Wilson of Nottinghamshire Probation Service offer a rationale for feminist practice.
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