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Title Improving social intervention : changing social policy and social work practice through research / edited by John Gandy, Alex Robertson and Susan Sinclair
Published London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations, 1 portrait
Series Routledge library editions : sociology of education ; volume 27
Routledge library editions. Sociology of education ; volume 27
Contents Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Part I: Researchandpolicy-Making; (a) Policy-making and the Political Context of Research; 1. Comparative Social Policy and the Politics of Comparison; 2. Research and Policy in the PersonalSocial Services; (b) Policy-making and the Assumptive Context of Research; 3. Law Reform and Social Change: Community and Society, Social work and Social Work; Part II: Policy and Practice; (a) Obstacles to Planned Reform
4. Knowledge and City Planning: a Case Study of the Role of the Environmental Health Officer5. Anomie, Ritualism and Inertia among Custodial Staff in Canadian Prisons: Some Implications for Research and Policy; 6. The Myth of Preventing Delinquency through Early Identification and Intervention; (b) Some Potential Research Contributions.; 7. Theory and Practice in Juvenile Justice: the Phenomenological Paradigm; 8. Orientations to the Meaning of Help: Research and Implications; 9. Social Work, Policy, Government and Research: a Mildly Optimistic View; Part III: Conclusions
Notes "A volume in memory of John Carrington Spencer (1915-1978)"--Added title page
Originally published: London : Croom Helm ; New York : St. Martin's Press, ©1983
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Audience Specialized
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Subject Social policy -- Research
Social service -- Research.
Social service -- Research -- Great Britain
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Services.
Social policy
Social policy -- Research
Social service -- Research
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001105
Subject Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Gandy, John, editor
Robertson, Alex, editor
Sinclair, Susan, editor
Spencer, John Carrington, honouree
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