I-XII -- Introduction -- 1. Social Prevention: Theoretical Controversies and Evaluation Strategies -- 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 -- 3. Social Individualization and the Fate of Sociological Method -- 4. Is an Advocatory Ethic at All Possible? -- Part II Theoretical Controversies -- 5. Introduction: Theoretical Controversies -- Section I Systematic Problems of Prevention as Social Action -- 6. Preventive Planning — A Strategy With Loss of Purpose -- 7. Basic Problems of Prevention -- 8. Verwendungsforschung — Research on the Use of Knowledge and Prevention in Social Work -- Section II Prevention as a Strategy of Social Work and Social Policy -- 9. Moving Beyond the Prevention-Intervention Dichotomy in Social Work -- 10. Cooptation and Counterculture — The Ambiguous Strategies of the Organizations of the Oppressed -- 11. Childhood, Subjectivity, and Prevention -- 12. Prevention Through Institutional Change? — The Preventive Potential in the Reorganization of Social Services -- 13. Innovation Despite Bureaucracy? — On the Self-Misunder- standing of Social Work -- 14. Normalization of Eroded Daily Life: Methodizing Everyday Life in Institutional Contexts -- 15. Advances in Research on Social Support and Issues Applying to Adolescents at Risk -- 16. The Lady Is Not for Burning — The Gender Paradox in Pre- vention and Social Support -- Part III Research on Social Prevention: Old Dilemmas and New Approaches to Evaluating Social Prevention -- 17. Introduction: Evaluation Strategies -- Section I Meta-Analysis: A New Approach to Evaluation Research -- 18. Meta-Analysis: Its Potential for Causal Description and Causal Explanation Within Program Evaluation -- 19. An Introduction to Meta-Analysis and the Integrative Research Review -- 20. Meta-Analysis and Social Prevention: Evaluation and a Study on the Family — Hypothesis in Developmental Psychopatholog -- 21. Coping With Threats to the Validity of Meta-Analytic Findings: A Reanalysis of German-Language Psychotherapy Outcome Studies -- 22. Methodological Aspects of the Synthesis of Social Prevention Research -- 23. Meta-Analysis and Brunswik Symmetry -- Section II The Practice of Evaluation Research: Handling Problems in Different Fields -- 24. Methodological Dilemmas in Research on Prevention and Intervention -- 25. Problems in the Analysis of Evaluation Research Data in Educational Science: An Empirical Study on Achieving Equal Opportunity in Instruction -- 26. Strategies and Problems in Research on the Implementation of the West German Abortion Law Reform -- 27. Evaluating the Impact of Criminal Law: The Case of Environmental Criminal Statutes -- 28. Therapy and Sentencing of Drug Addicts -- 29. Conception of Process Evaluation of Community-Based Cardiovascular Prevention Programs -- 30. The Mass Media and Violent Imitative Behavior: A Review of Research -- Section III Longitudinal Studies as Basis of Progress: Chances and Risks for Evaluation Research -- 31. Three Facts and Their Implications for Research on Crime -- 32. Incarceration and Recidivism -- 33. School Drop-Out and Juvenile Delinquency: First Results of a Dutch Experiment -- 34. Moral Beliefs: Patterns of Crystallization and Individual Stability — Findings From a Panel Study -- 35. Simulation Models in the Analysis of Panel Data — New Ways of Predictive Theory Formation in Longitudinal Social Research -- 36. The Analysis of Interdependent Social Processes — The Example of Life-Course Analysis -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- 639-640

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