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Social Problems and the Family Rudi Dallos

Social Problems and the Family By Rudi Dallos

Social Problems and the Family by Rudi Dallos


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Introductory text, examining psychological and sociological perspectives on the family, and exploring the links between the family and social policy. The focus is on issues which bring the family into contact with the welfare state, such as domestic violence, child abuse, mental health and poverty.

Social Problems and the Family Summary

Social Problems and the Family by Rudi Dallos

In the search for the causes of and solutions to social problems, no social institution has been allocated such a central role as the family. This volume examines how `the family' is constituted both in explanations of social problems and in modes of state intervention. The contributors consider some of the most controversial social policy issues in Britain today: domestic violence; child abuse; old age; mental health; juvenile delinquency; and poverty and homelessness.

In examining these social problems, the contributors address key definitional issues, assess traditional and alternative theoretical perspectives and survey different modes of intervention. They show just how pervasive and complex the state regulation of family life is in contemporary society.

With its illuminating interdisciplinary approach, this volume is an essential textbook for students and practitioners in all fields of family-related social work, social policy and social science disciplines. It is a Course Book for The Open University course D311 Family Life and Social Policy.

Social Problems and the Family Reviews

`This clearly written and attractively presented book provides a succinct overview of contemporary social problems, with relevance well beyond the UK situation' - Family Matters

About Rudi Dallos

Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.

Table of Contents

Introduction Domestic Violence - Sally Foreman and Rudi Dallos The Abuse of Children - Esther Saraga Mental Health - Rudi Dallos and David Boswell Old Age - John Baldock Juvenile Delinquency - Eugene McLaughlin and John Muncie The Problem of Poverty - Allan Cochrane Homelessness - Richard Skellington

Additional information

GOR001251333
9780803988378
0803988370
Social Problems and the Family by Rudi Dallos
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Ltd
1993-03-24
288
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