Improving social intervention
Subtitle: changing social policy and social work practice through research : a volume in memory of John Carrington Spencer (1915-1978)
By: edited by John Gandy, Alex Robertson, and Susan Sinclair.
Contributors: Spencer, John Carrington.; Gandy, John.; Robertson, Alex.; Sinclair, Susan.
Publisher: Croom Helm; St. Martin's Press
Published: 1983
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
Subjects: Spencer, John Carrington.; Social policy -- Research.; Social service -- Research.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: value: John Spencer / Susan Sinclair; value: Comparative social policy and the politics of comparison / Roy Parker; value: Research and policy in the personal social services / Olive Stevenson; value: Law reform and social change / Hans Mohr; value: Knowledge and city planning / Norman Dennis; value: Anomie, ritualism, and inertia among custodial staff in Canadian prisons / Terence Willett; value: The myth of preventing delinquency through early identification and intervention / Jack Byles; value: Theory and practice in juvenile justice / Stewart Asquith; value: Orientations to the meaning of help / Ben Shapiro; value: Social work, policy, government, and research / Gilbert Smith; value: Policy, practice, and research / Alex Robertson and John Gandy.