1st Edition

Vagrant Alcoholics

By Tim Cook Copyright 1975
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

In the 1970s the vagrant alcoholic was not a new problem, and for the previous two hundred years people had asked: What can be done to help them? Why not lock them up? Why don’t they get jobs? Tim Cook had worked for many years with homeless men and in this book, originally published in 1975, he describes the problems of vagrant alcoholics and the way in which one voluntary organization, the... Read more

Preface.  1. Introduction  2. The Beginning  3. The First Phase  4. Shop Fronts  5. Other Work of the Project  6. Detoxification Centres  7. Views from the Other Side  8. Assessment and Evaluation  9. Concluding Considerations.  Bibliography.  Index.

Biography

Tim Cook