Delinquency Prevention and Control Policies in the United States: Issues and Prospects for the Future

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents XI
4. Contributors XV
5. Introduction. How to Organize Prevention: Suggestions for Innovations in Social Work 1
6. Part I. Socio-Political Issues of Prevention
7. Social Europe. Welfare State Trajectories of the European Community 17
8. Family Policy and the Liberal State 61
9. Professional Help and Solidarity 73
10. Prevention as a Component of Regulation in 'Risk Societies' 93
11. Individualization of Family Structures and Socio-Political Intervention 101
12. Part II. Models of Organization and Development Strategies for Social Services
13. Sectoral Approaches to Prevention in Social Work: Private, Professional and Ethno-Centered Practice in Canada 113
14. Prevention: Perspectives for its Organization in a Differentiated Society 131
15. Organizing Good Intentions 147
16. Organizing and Financing Prevention: Community-Based Programs for Children and Families 159
17. Community-Based Child and Family Services in an Urban Setting: An Examination of Service Delivery and the Potential for Prevention 173
18. Child Welfare in Japan 189
19. Part III. Professional Competence and Preventive Action
20. The Discourse of Social Work: Normalization Versus the Autonomy of Life Praxis 201
21. The Gender Bias in Welfare Politics: Some Remarks on New Starting Points for the Discussion of Prevention 219
22. Prevention: Some Current Issues in the UK 231
23. The Service Delivery System: A Key Element in Prevention Planning 241
24. The Future in the Past: Deriving Social Work Competence from Past Success 249
25. An Eco-Social Action Concept of Prevention: Life Text and Context Interpretations in their Preventive Function 257
26. Discussion Statement: Professional Action And Concepts of Prevention 261
27. Part IV. Preventive Strategies in Social Work Practice
28. Youth Participation and Integrated Youth Policy on Local Level 267
29. Social Constraints on Primary Prevention: The Case of Child Sexual Abuse Policy 279
30. Deprivation and Poor Health in Childhood: Prospects for Prevention 291
31. Experiences from German Youth Programs for the Primary Prevention of Aids: A Work in Progress Report 325
32. Notes on Child Abuse and Incest: How Incest Became a Question of Social Injustice towards Women and was Seperated from the Issue of Child Abuse 337
33. Prevention and the Utilization of Evaluation Research 349
34. Part V. Preventive Strategies in the Criminal Justice System
35. Careers and Process in Preventative Services for Young People in England 367
36. Delinquency Prevention and Control Policies in the United States: Issues and Prospects for the Future 375
37. Individual Prevention: Comments on an Obsolete Conception 391
38. Techno-Prevention and Conflict Management versus Moral-Authoritarian Control in Criminal Policy 401
39. Dutch Policies for Prevention of Vandalism and Petty Crime 407
40. Discussion Statement: Prevention Strategies in the Criminal Justice System 413
41. Subject Index 419