Some children seem to present parents, teachers, social workers and courts with such serious or disparate problems that holding them in secure accommodation is apparently the only way to control them. How this comes about, and by what criteria social workers and courts help them make these difficult decisions, are the subjects of this intriguing and innovative book. In Secure Accommodation in Child Care, Harris and Timms use a major empirical study of children in secure accommodation as a basis for an analysis of relations between the state, the family and the difficult child. By synthesizing...
Some children seem to present parents, teachers, social workers and courts with such serious or disparate problems that holding them in secure accommo...
The topics covered in this book are directly related to much of the misunderstanding of what sociology is about. It is usual nowadays to label as sociological any discussion concerned, however loosely, with 'Society'. But a careful reading of Mr Timms' treatment of the problem areas he has chosen should make clear the difference between this use of the adjective in everyday speech, and its more vigorous technical use. In dealing with his subject Mr Timms makes use of the concepts of sociology such as 'role', 'norms', 'social control', 'class', and 'family'.
The topics covered in this book are directly related to much of the misunderstanding of what sociology is about. It is usual nowadays to label as s...
