Ventures in Criminology

Ventures in Criminology
Author: Sheldon Glueck
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1136423680

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1964 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Library of Congress Catalog

Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 616
Release: 1960
Genre: Catalogs, Subject
ISBN:

A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Boston's Wayward Children

Boston's Wayward Children
Author: Peter C. Holloran
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1989
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780838632970

This study explores the origin and development of the American social welfare system. It demonstrates that the system of orphanages, child-placing agencies, reformatories, juvenile courts, and child guidance clinics established in Victorian Boston was a foundation for the New Deal and remains the basis of contemporary social work with the young.