Improving social intervention : changing social policy and social work practice through research ; a volume in memory of John Carrington Spencer (1915-1978)

John Spencer / Susan Sinclair -- Comparative social policy and the politics of comparison / Roy Parker -- Research and policy in the personal social services / Olive Stevenson -- Law reform and social change / Hans Mohr -- Knowledge and city planning / Norman Dennis -- Anomie, ritualism, and inertia among custodial staff in Canadian prisons / Terence Willett -- The myth of preventing delinquency through early identification and intervention / Jack Byles -- Theory and practice in juvenile justice / Stewart Asquith -- Orientations to the meaning of help / Ben Shapiro -- Social work, policy, government, and research / Gilbert Smith -- Policy, practice, and research / Alex Robertson and John Gandy