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A Step-By-Step Guide to Take You from Start to Finish
Students and researchers have an abundance of materials and sources available to them via the internet for use in their projects. However, there is little practical guidance available on the fundamentals of performing qualitative research with documents. This valuable book …
View book details for A Contemporary History of Social Work
Learning from the Past
Policy Press
Drawing on lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has failed to maintain its position as …
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A Buddhist Approach to Resolving Our Economic and Financial Crises
Policy Press
Despite our fitful attempts over decades at reform, the global financial system seems caught in cycles of boom and bust, instability, and scandal. In this timely new book, Joel Magnuson builds on the classic works of E. F. Schumacher and …
View book details for Supporting Victims of Hate Crime
A Practitioner Guide
Policy Press
This practical guide provides user-friendly, concise, expert and up-to-date guidance for both new and experienced hate crime caseworkers and advocates (whether professional or volunteers). Filling a gap in the growing debates and research literature on hate crime, it takes as …
View book details for Conceptualising Arbitrary Detention
Power, Punishment and Control
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book examines what happens when states and other authorities use detention to abuse their power, deter dissent and maintain social hierarchies. Written by an author with decades of practical experience in the …
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View book details for Commissioning for Health and Well-Being
An Introduction
Policy Press
Commissioning is now a key task for health and social care - and yet policy aspirations often outstrip the infrastructure needed to support commissioners as they take difficult decisions about future services and to make commissioning a career of choice …
View book details for The Death of Affirmative Action?
Racialized Framing and the Fight Against Racial Preference in College Admissions
Affirmative action in US college admissions has inspired fierce debate as well as several US Supreme Court cases. In this significant study, leading US professors J. Scott Carter and Cameron D. Lippard provide an in-depth examination of the issue using …
The US subprime mortgage crisis, by nearly causing the collapse of the global financial system during the 200708 financial crisis, clearly revealed that household debt management is critical to the stability of the international economy. The configuration of mortgage finance …
Although the asset management industry has come under increasing scrutiny since the financial crisis it still remains poorly understood and investment scandals continue to headline in the financial press. Whereas most literature on the industry focuses on the technical end …
View book details for Giving Voice to Diversity in Criminological Research
Nothing about Us without Us
The people most impacted by criminal justice policies and practices are seldom included in the decision-making processes that affect their lives. Building on the nothing about us without us social movement, this edited volume advocates an inclusive approach to criminology …
View book details for Recording in social work
Not just an administrative task
Policy Press
Recording is regarded by most social workers as a necessary evil. The research from which this book arises found that recording is a highly complex and demanding aspect of professional practice. Why has such a critical activity received so little …
View book details for Challenging the Politics of Early Intervention
Who's 'Saving' Children and Why
Policy Press
A vital interrogation of the internationally accepted policy and practice consensus that intervention to shape parenting in the early years is the way to prevent disadvantage. Given the divisive assumptions and essentialist ideas behind early years intervention, in whose interests …
View book details for Whatever it Takes
The Battle for Post-Crisis Europe
For generations, Europeans have become accustomed to rising prosperity, an increasingly supportive social safety net and the expectation that each generation will fare better than the last. Europe has built a social model that is second to none, and fashioned …
This book investigates insurgent planning practices and their potential for alternative forms of civic engagement and democracy-building. It explores how planners can challenge technocratic planning by incorporating notions of participation, inclusion, trans-sectionality and the right to the city into their …
View book details for Public Sociology As Educational Practice
Challenges, Dialogues and Counter-Publics
Leading academics take a distinctive new approach to the understanding of public sociology education in this perceptive new resource. Through pedagogical case studies and inter-contributor dialogues, they develop and challenge thinking in the field. Divided into three sections on the …
There is increasing interest in young peoples participation in the design and delivery of health services. But young peoples views are not consistently sought or acknowledged, and they are still often marginalised in healthcare encounters. Drawing on original research and …
View book details for Positive Youth Justice
Children First, Offenders Second
Policy Press
This topical, accessibly written book moves beyond established critiques to outline a model of positive youth justice: Children First, Offenders Second. Already in use in Wales, the proposed model promotes child-friendly, diversionary, inclusive, engaging, promotional practice and legitimate partnership between …
View book details for Imprisonment Worldwide
The Current Situation and an Alternative Future
Policy Press
How many people are imprisoned across the globe? What factors can help explain variations in the use of imprisonment in different countries? What ethical considerations should apply to the way imprisonment is used? Providing a comprehensive account of prison populations …
Policy Press
Many European cities have a shortage of good quality, affordable housing, but this problem has become less prominent in policy than it should be. This timely book aims to redress that balance. After an introductory chapter, expert contributors provide contemporary …
View book details for Participatory Ideology
From Exclusion to Involvement
The COVID-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter movement and renewed action against climate change all highlight the increasing gulf between narrowly based dominant political ideologies and popular demands for social justice, global health, environmentalism and human rights. This book examines for …
Policy Press
Ethical dilemmas are not new in the area of health care and policy making, but in recent years, their frequency and diversity have grown considerably. All health professionals now have to consider the ethical implications of an increasing array of …
View book details for Corbynism in Perspective
The Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn proved to be one of Labours most popular and yet one of its most divisive leaders amongst the membership. From his surprise election in 2015, he was characterized as both hero and villain. A conviction politician, determined to …
Productivity looms large in public policy discussions yet many find themselves hard-pressed to explain exactly what the term means. Even within economics, its nature and significance is contested and the focus of complex debate. Michael Haynes cuts through the jargon …
The rise of behavioural approaches in economics has been one of most significant developments in the study of economic decision-making in recent years. The increasingly acknowledged failings of standard models of choice to explain economic decisions has prompted economists to …
Its nearly Christmas and its snowing, hard. Deep in the Yorkshire Moors nestles a tiny hamlet, with a pub at its heart. As the snow falls, the inn will become an unexpected haven for six people forced to seek shelter …
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