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Titolo: | New approaches to social problems treatment [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mark Peyrot, Stacy Lee Burns |
Pubblicazione: | Bingley, UK, : Emerald, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.7 |
Soggetto topico: | Social problems |
Sex crimes | |
Hate crimes | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | PeyrotMark BurnsStacy Lee |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Front cover; New Approaches to social Problems Treatment; Copyright page; Contents; List of contributors; Part I: Introduction; New approaches to social problems remedies; Part II: New Forms of Deviance; Hate crimes and their criminalization; Pat III: Sexual Offenses; Creating victim-centered criminal justice practices for rape prosecution; Forgotten victims, unforgiven perpetrators: Social problems work with adult male sexual offenders who purport to have been sexually victimized as children; Part IV: Violence and Schools; The columbine effect and school antiviolence policy |
The gang's school: Challenges of reintegrative social controlPart V: Substance Abuse in the Courts; Losing hope: The production of failure in drug court; Standardizing social problems solutions: The case of court-supervised drug treatment; Part VI: Correctional Treatment; Recovery and punishment: Reconciling the conflicting objectives of coercive treatment in correctional settings; Ex-inmates with psychiatric disabilities returning to the community from correctional custody: The forensic transition team approach after a decade; Part VII: Conclusion | |
Social problems and public policy: A theoretical overview of policy issues and implications | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This volume examines diverse developments in the evolution of public policy institutions for remedying social problems. The collected chapters address the transformation of social problems, social problems work, and social problems solutions in the context of criminal justice, mental health, and community institutions (schools) in contemporary society. These diverse settings and institutions collectively reflect a trend toward the use of various 'treatment' initiatives within formal disciplinary systems and as part of legalistic social control strategies. Although all of the remedial approache |
Titolo autorizzato: | New approaches to social problems treatment |
ISBN: | 1-282-50009-0 |
9786612500091 | |
1-84950-737-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910455569303321 |
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