Social Prevention and the Social Sciences

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- 1. Social Prevention: Theoretical Controversies and Evaluation Strategies / Albrecht, Günter / Otto, Hans-Uwe -- Part I Crises of Present-Day Societies and Social Prevention: Implications for Theory, Methodology, and Ethics -- 2. Decline of Community? - Problems of Guidance and Control in Present-Day Societies / Berger, Johannes -- 3. Social Individualization and the Fate of Sociological Method / Esser, Hartmut -- 4. Is an Advocatory Ethic at All Possible? / Brumlik, Micha -- Part II Theoretical Controversies -- 5. Introduction: Theoretical Controversies / Otto, Hans-Uwe -- Section I Systematic Problems of Prevention as Social Action -- 6. Preventive Planning - A Strategy With Loss of Purpose / Japp, Klaus Peter -- 7. Basic Problems of Prevention / Hess, Remi -- 8. Verwendungsforschung - Research on the Use of Knowledge and Prevention in Social Work / Dewe, Bernd / Otto, Hans-Uwe -- Section II Prevention as a Strategy of Social Work and Social Policy -- 9. Moving Beyond the Prevention-Intervention Dichotomy in Social Work / Galaway, Burt -- 10. Cooptation and Counterculture - The Ambiguous Strategies of the Organizations of the Oppressed / Sunesson, Sune -- 11. Childhood, Subjectivity, and Prevention / Stinker, Heinz -- 12. Prevention Through Institutional Change? - The Preventive Potential in the Reorganization of Social Services / Böllert, Karin -- 13. Innovation Despite Bureaucracy? - On the Self-Misunder- standing of Social Work / Flösser, Gaby -- 14. Normalization of Eroded Daily Life: Methodizing Everyday Life in Institutional Contexts / Gildemeister, Regine -- 15. Advances in Research on Social Support and Issues Applying to Adolescents at Risk / Gottlieb, Benjamin H. -- 16. The Lady Is Not for Burning - The Gender Paradox in Pre- vention and Social Support / Nestmann, Frank / Schmerl, Christiane -- Part III Research on Social Prevention: Old Dilemmas and New Approaches to Evaluating Social Prevention -- 17. Introduction: Evaluation Strategies / Albrecht, Günter -- Section I Meta-Analysis: A New Approach to Evaluation Research -- 18. Meta-Analysis: Its Potential for Causal Description and Causal Explanation Within Program Evaluation / Cook, Thomas D. -- 19. An Introduction to Meta-Analysis and the Integrative Research Review / Cooper, Harris -- 20. Meta-Analysis and Social Prevention: Evaluation and a Study on the Family - Hypothesis in Developmental Psychopatholog / Lösel, Friedrich -- 21. Coping With Threats to the Validity of Meta-Analytic Findings: A Reanalysis of German-Language Psychotherapy Outcome Studies / Matt, Georg E. -- 22. Methodological Aspects of the Synthesis of Social Prevention Research / Hedges, Larry V. -- 23. Meta-Analysis and Brunswik Symmetry / Wittmann, Werner W. -- Section II The Practice of Evaluation Research: Handling Problems in Different Fields -- 24. Methodological Dilemmas in Research on Prevention and Intervention / Albrecht, Günter -- 25. Problems in the Analysis of Evaluation Research Data in Educational Science: An Empirical Study on Achieving Equal Opportunity in Instruction / Treumann, Klaus -- 26. Strategies and Problems in Research on the Implementation of the West German Abortion Law Reform / Häußler-Sczepan, Monika -- 27. Evaluating the Impact of Criminal Law: The Case of Environmental Criminal Statutes / Albrecht, Hans-Jörg -- 28. Therapy and Sentencing of Drug Addicts / Egg, Rudolf -- 29. Conception of Process Evaluation of Community-Based Cardiovascular Prevention Programs / Mager, A. / Hetzel, K. / Yogi, M. / Roleff, K. / Hüllemann, K.-D. -- 30. The Mass Media and Violent Imitative Behavior: A Review of Research / Kinkel, R. John / Josef, Norma C. -- Section III Longitudinal Studies as Basis of Progress: Chances and Risks for Evaluation Research -- 31. Three Facts and Their Implications for Research on Crime / Gottfredson, Michael / Hirschi, Travis -- 32. Incarceration and Recidivism / Hermann, Dieter -- 33. School Drop-Out and Juvenile Delinquency: First Results of a Dutch Experiment / Junger-Tas, Josine -- 34. Moral Beliefs: Patterns of Crystallization and Individual Stability - Findings From a Panel Study / Reuband, Karl-Heinz -- 35. Simulation Models in the Analysis of Panel Data - New Ways of Predictive Theory Formation in Longitudinal Social Research / Strohmeier, Klaus Peter -- 36. The Analysis of Interdependent Social Processes - The Example of Life-Course Analysis / Huinink, Johannes -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Backmatter