12. Prevention Through Institutional Change? — The Preventive Potential in the Reorganization of Social Services

Chapters in this book

1. I-XII I
2. Introduction
3. 1. Social Prevention: Theoretical Controversies and Evaluation Strategies 3
4. Part I Crises of Present-Day Societies and Social Prevention: Implications for Theory, Methodology, and Ethics
5. 2. Decline of Community? — Problems of Guidance and Control in Present-Day Societies 17
6. 3. Social Individualization and the Fate of Sociological Method 33
7. 4. Is an Advocatory Ethic at All Possible? 61
8. Part II Theoretical Controversies
9. 5. Introduction: Theoretical Controversies 73
10. Section I Systematic Problems of Prevention as Social Action
11. 6. Preventive Planning — A Strategy With Loss of Purpose 81
12. 7. Basic Problems of Prevention 95
13. 8. Verwendungsforschung — Research on the Use of Knowledge and Prevention in Social Work 101
14. Section II Prevention as a Strategy of Social Work and Social Policy
15. 9. Moving Beyond the Prevention-Intervention Dichotomy in Social Work 121
16. 10. Cooptation and Counterculture — The Ambiguous Strategies of the Organizations of the Oppressed 131
17. 11. Childhood, Subjectivity, and Prevention 143
18. 12. Prevention Through Institutional Change? — The Preventive Potential in the Reorganization of Social Services 157
19. 13. Innovation Despite Bureaucracy? — On the Self-Misunder- standing of Social Work 167
20. 14. Normalization of Eroded Daily Life: Methodizing Everyday Life in Institutional Contexts 183
21. 15. Advances in Research on Social Support and Issues Applying to Adolescents at Risk 199
22. 16. The Lady Is Not for Burning — The Gender Paradox in Pre- vention and Social Support 217
23. Part III Research on Social Prevention: Old Dilemmas and New Approaches to Evaluating Social Prevention
24. 17. Introduction: Evaluation Strategies 237
25. Section I Meta-Analysis: A New Approach to Evaluation Research
26. 18. Meta-Analysis: Its Potential for Causal Description and Causal Explanation Within Program Evaluation 245
27. 19. An Introduction to Meta-Analysis and the Integrative Research Review 287
28. 20. Meta-Analysis and Social Prevention: Evaluation and a Study on the Family — Hypothesis in Developmental Psychopatholog 305
29. 21. Coping With Threats to the Validity of Meta-Analytic Findings: A Reanalysis of German-Language Psychotherapy Outcome Studies 333
30. 22. Methodological Aspects of the Synthesis of Social Prevention Research 353
31. 23. Meta-Analysis and Brunswik Symmetry 381
32. Section II The Practice of Evaluation Research: Handling Problems in Different Fields
33. 24. Methodological Dilemmas in Research on Prevention and Intervention 397
34. 25. Problems in the Analysis of Evaluation Research Data in Educational Science: An Empirical Study on Achieving Equal Opportunity in Instruction 429
35. 26. Strategies and Problems in Research on the Implementation of the West German Abortion Law Reform 455
36. 27. Evaluating the Impact of Criminal Law: The Case of Environmental Criminal Statutes 467
37. 28. Therapy and Sentencing of Drug Addicts 479
38. 29. Conception of Process Evaluation of Community-Based Cardiovascular Prevention Programs 489
39. 30. The Mass Media and Violent Imitative Behavior: A Review of Research 499
40. Section III Longitudinal Studies as Basis of Progress: Chances and Risks for Evaluation Research
41. 31. Three Facts and Their Implications for Research on Crime 525
42. 32. Incarceration and Recidivism 537
43. 33. School Drop-Out and Juvenile Delinquency: First Results of a Dutch Experiment 551
44. 34. Moral Beliefs: Patterns of Crystallization and Individual Stability — Findings From a Panel Study 573
45. 35. Simulation Models in the Analysis of Panel Data — New Ways of Predictive Theory Formation in Longitudinal Social Research 581
46. 36. The Analysis of Interdependent Social Processes — The Example of Life-Course Analysis 601
47. Author Index 617
48. Subject Index 629
49. 639-640 639