Social deviance
Subtitle: social policy, action and research
By: Leslie T. Wilkins
Series: The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library. Crime & Deliquency -- Volume IX
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxfordshire, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Social problems; Social action; Social sciences; Research; Social Problems; Problèmes sociaux; Action sociale; Sciences sociales; Recherche; Social issues
Notes: "First published in 1964"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Scientific evaluation of social policy : is it needed?; title: 2. The divide : action and research : 'pure' and applied; title: 3. The place of theory; title: 4. A general theory of deviance : deviance, opportunity, and normality; title: 5. Models or muddles? Towards a strategy for social work and research; title: 6. What problems? What priority? General social accounting and priority for action; title: 7. Problem into model : transformation and communication; title: 8. Target, criteria, ends, and means; title: 9. Measurement and estimation of pay-off; title: 10. Groups, loops, and hierarchies : decision-making networks.