Improving Social Intervention

Changing Social Policy and Social Work Practice through Research
Herausgeber: Gandy, John; Sinclair, Susan; Robertson, Alex

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1983, considers the whole problem of how social research can lead to improvement in practice in social policy and social work. In the first section, individual chapters discuss the political context within which research is commissioned and used, through consideration of the politics of comparative research and of the application of research findings to policy-making in the personal social services. The problems of putting policy into practice and using research in a systematic and predictable way for improving situation is also examined. This title will be of interest to students of the Sociology, Education and Social Policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781138236783
• ISBN-10: 1138236780
• Artikelnr.: 54242221

Autorenporträt

John Gandy, Alex Robertson, Susan Sinclair

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - John Spencer: An Appreciation Susan Sinclair; Part One: Research
and Policy-Making; 1. Comparative Social Policy and the Politics of
Comparison Roy Parker 2. Research and Policy in the Personal Social
Services Olive Stevenson 3. Law Reform and Social Change: Community and
Society, SOCIAL Work and Social WORK Hans Mohr; Part Two: Policy and
Practice; 4. Knowledge and City Planning: A Case Study of the Role of the
Environmental Health Officer Norman Dennis 5. Anomie, Ritualism and Inertia
among Custodial Staff in Canadian Prisons: Some Implications for Research
and Policy Terence Willett 6. The Myth of Preventing Delinquency through
Early Identification and Intervention Jack Byles 7. Theory and Practice in
Juvenile Justice: The Phenomenological Paradigm Stewart Asquith 8.
Orientations to the Meaning of Help: Research and Implications Ben Shapiro
9. Social Work, Policy, Government and Research: A Mildly Optimistic View
Gilbert Smith; Part Three: Conclusions; 10. Policy, Practice and Research:
An Overview Alex Robertson and John Gandy