Social Services category: 2206 books
The Witch-Hunt Narrative
Politics, Psychology, and the Sexual Abuse of Children
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
In the 1980s, a series of child sex abuse cases rocked the United States. The most famous case was the 1984 McMartin preschool case, but there were a number of others as well. By the latter part of the decade, the assumption was widespread that child sex abuse had become a serious problem in America....
Broken benefits
What's gone wrong with welfare reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Britain is going through the most radical upheaval of the benefits system since its foundations were laid at the end of the 1940s. In Broken Benefits, Sam Royston argues that social security isn’t working, and without a change in direction, it will be even less fair in the future. Drawing on original...
The Community Economic Development Movement
Law, Business, and the New Social Policy
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2002
While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades. The new style is reflected in a panoply of Community Economic Development (ced) initiatives—efforts led by locally-based organizations to develop housing, jobs, and...
The Invisible Safety Net
Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2008
In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack.
Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash welfare, which accounts for a small and...
The Role of Business in the Development of the Welfare State and Labor Markets in Germany
Containing Social Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012
This book assesses the role of employers in the development of welfare state and labour market institutions. Building on an in-depth analysis of Germany, a market economy known to often provide economic benefits to firms, this book explores one of the most contested issues in the comparative and historical...
Women, Policy and Politics
The Construction of Policy Problems
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 1999
This book offers a powerful new approach to policy studies. Drawing on recent perspectives from social constructionism, discourse analysis, the sociology of social problems and feminism, Carol Bacchi develops a step-by-step analytical tool for deconstructing policy problems. Her `What's the Problem?'...
by Michael Mandelstam
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
The safeguarding of vulnerable adults continues to increase in importance. Safeguarding Adults and the Law, now in its second edition, sets this complex area of work within an extensive legal framework and provides many useful pointers for practitioners and students.
The book covers, for example,...
Democracy under attack
How the media distort policy and politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
Malcolm Dean, The Guardian newspaper’s longstanding chief monitor of social affairs, expertly indicts his own trade through a series of seven case studies on the influence of media on social policy. Drawing on four decades of top-level Whitehall briefings, topped up by interviews with 150 policy-makers,...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Joe Conason in his book “The Raw Deal, How Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time....
Inclusion and Resilience
The Way Forward for Social Safety Nets in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The report aims to meet two broad objectives: (a) enhance knowledge about the current state of existing social safety nets (SSNs) and assess their effectiveness in responding to new and emerging challenges to the poor and vulnerable in the region by bringing together new evidence, data, and country-specific...
Familias y educación social
Un encuentro necesario
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 14, 2016
Quizás sea cierto, como justifican algunos discursos y anuncian algunas políticas, que las familias no necesitan más apoyos que aquellos que les son ¿propios? (redes familiares, vecinales,?). La realidad muestra, sin embargo, que los itinerarios vitales de todas las familias son siempre complejos...
Welfare State Transformation in the Yugoslav Successor States
From Social to Unequal
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Welfare states are the product of economic, political and social interactions, and undergo changes as these interactions transform. Existing welfare state theories mainly tend to explain the emergence and development of the welfare state in the western, industrialized and capitalist world. While the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Changes in family structures, demographics, social attitudes and economic policies over the last sixty years have had a large impact on family lives and correspondingly on family law. This book provides global perspectives on the policy challenges facing family law and policy round the world.
The...
by Per-Olof H. Wikström
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...