HISTORY of information science, INFORMATION literacy, INFORMATION services, INFORMATION retrieval, SOCIAL sciences, KNOWLEDGE management
Abstract
This paper explores the history of 'the social' in information science. It traces the influence of social scientific thinking on the development of the field's intellectual base. The continuing appropriation of both theoretical and methodological insights from domains such as social studies of science, science and technology studies, and socio-technical systems is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
JUSTICE administration, JUVENILE justice administration, SOCIAL sciences, JUSTICE, SOCIOLOGY, CRIMINAL justice system, CHILDREN'S rights, HISTORY
Abstract
This article examines the application of the psy-sciences to the conduct of juvenile justice in Victoria in the period 1940-80, in order to reassess assumptions in contemporary sociology of law concerning psy-knowledge and judicial administration, welfare and justice, and their relations to liberal or conservative political mandates. It seeks to understand the implications of shifts in the production of knowledge of the child in the justice system, by reporting on analysis of both clinical and administrative files of the Children's Court Clinic in this period. The article documents how particular kinds of offenders became known in order to be properly managed, and questions the extent of separation between science and juvenile justice administration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]