Social Science and Social Pathology

Originally published in 1959, this book critically examines, in the light of numerous research, both the relation between unacceptable behaviour and economic and social status and the validity of several popular hypotheses of the 20th Century.

Barbara Wootton was a British sociologist and criminologist. She was President of the British Sociological Association from 1959-1964. She served as a chairman of juvenile court magistrates in London for nearly 20 years (1946-62), and as a lay magistrate (1926-70). She died in 1988.