VAGRANT ALCOHOLICS

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, h...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Cook, T. (Timothy), 1938-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2023.
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