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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780424603321

Autore

Moffatt Kenneth James <1952->

Titolo

A poetics of social work : personal agency and social transformation in Canada, 1920-1939 / / Ken Moffatt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Canada] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-281-99598-3

9786611995980

1-4426-7040-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (167 p.)

Disciplina

361.3/01

Soggetti

Social service - Canada - Philosophy - History

Ressources Internet

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Thinking about criminology : "facts are bits of biography" / Paul Rock and Simon Holdaway -- Theorizing : sotto voce / Clifford Shearing -- Making the invisible visible in criminology : a personal journey / Elizabeth A. Stanko -- Translations and refutations : an analysis of changing perspectives in criminology / Frances Heidensohn -- Copping a plea / Robert Reiner -- Back to the future : the predictive value of social theories of delinquency / David Downes -- Roots of a perspective / Nils Christie -- From criminology to anthropology? Identity, morality, and normality in the social construction of deviance / Richard Jenkins -- Obituaries, opportunities and obsessions / Ken Pease -- Thinking about criminology : a reflection on theory within criminology / Simon Holdaway and Paul Rock.

Sommario/riassunto

Annotation