書目名稱 | Fatal Remedies | 副標(biāo)題 | The Ironies of Socia | 編輯 | Sam D. Sieber | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/342/341385/341385.mp4 | 叢書名稱 | Environment, Development and Public Policy: Public Policy and Social Services | 圖書封面 |  | 描述 | by Ronald G. Corwin What do the following have in common: regulatory agencies, magnet schools, a declining empire, puritan asceticism, plea bargaining, the recent tax revolt in California, the Boston Tea Party, the Vietnam War, public drinking halls during Prohibi- tion, police entrapment, and Yosemite National Park on Labor Day weekend? If the answer is not readily apparent, read this engaging book. Dr. Sam Sieber makes a convincing case that harbored in a potpourri of such events are countless instances of how well-intentioned social interventions often produce harmful effects. Searching for a general framework that will force us to think of heretofore discrete events in new ways, he has chosen to use the term "intervention" in its broadest sense. His approach is a superb example of how serious schol- arship can produce a new creative synthesis from familiar knowledge when the scholar is guided by a lively curiosity. The wide-ranging subject matter of this book provides a re- freshing vision of social reform movements and programs. I think that Sieber has succeeded in doing what he set out to do: namely, to develop a general and inclusive typology for cl- ix x RONALD G. CORWIN si | 出版日期 | Book 1981 | 關(guān)鍵詞 | Action; Nation; intervention; knowledge; police; reform; social theory | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7456-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4684-7458-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4684-7456-5 | copyright | Plenum Press, New York 1981 |
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