Social Services category: 2206 books
Law and Order
An Honest Citizen's Guide to Crime and Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Law and order has become a key issue throughout the world. Crime stories saturate the mass media and politicians shrilly compete with each other in a race to be the toughest on crime. Prisons are crammed to bursting point, and police powers and resources extended repeatedly. After decades of explosive...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Rising public health care spending remains a problem in virtually all OECD and EU member countries. As a consequence, there is growing interest in policies that will ease this pressure through improved health system performance. This report examines selected policies that may help countries better...
by Norman Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This book explains the changes that have occurred in welfare states since the early 1970s and considers some of the policy dilemmas that have arisen. Each of the chapters begins with an introduction to set the scene, followed by an examination of the theoretical and conceptual perspectives of the...
The Politics of Disgust
The Public Identity of the Welfare Queen
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2004
Winner of the 2006 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Organized Section Best First Book Award from the American Political Science Association
Winner of the 2006 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists
Ange-Marie Hancock argues that longstanding beliefs about...
Work and the Welfare State
Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK,...
The State and Terrorism
National Security and the Mobilization of Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Adopting an innovative approach to the ongoing debate over homeland security and state response to terrorism, Joseph Campos investigates the contextualizing of national security discourse and its management of terrorism. New ideas developed in this book reflect ways in which national security is mobilized...
The Heart of Care: Dignity in Action
A Guide to Person-Centred Compassionate Elder Care
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
I felt like a caged animal.' This damning indictment by Dame Dorothy Tutin of her treatment in hospital at the age of 70 propelled her daughter Amanda Waring into a crusade to ensure that all older people in care are treated with kindness, compassion and dignity. Amanda is now a widely respected filmmaker,...
DDR
DEUTSCHE DEMOKRATISCHE REPUBLIK 1945 - 1990
Language: German
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Wir Thälmannpioniere lieben unser sozialistisches Vaterland, die Deutsche Demokratische Republik. In Wort und Tat ergreifen wir immer und überall Partei für unseren Arbeiter- und Bauern-Staat, der ein fester Bestandteil der sozialistischen Staatengemeinschaft ist.
Wir Thälmannpioniere...
by Michael Schneider, Mike Pottenger
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
This book is about the distribution of wealth among people, described by statisticians as the size distribution of wealth, and the way that this distribution has changed over time. It provides answers to a host of important questions including, why is the distribution of wealth important and how can...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This special edition of Health at a Glance focuses on health issues across the 27 European Union member states, three European Free Trade Association countries (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) and Turkey. It gives readers a better understanding of the factors that affect the health of populations...
by Carolyn Franklin M.A.
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2019
There’s a direct connection between welfare and crime, and by extension police brutality. The cost of welfare, and membership in that life style continually in-creases, thus the costs from welfare-related crimes increases. And by extension police brutality increases. Law enforcement gets more brutal...
by John W. Moran
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
As the United States faces increasingly difficult and trenchant public health problems, from the Zika virus to the obesity epidemic to the opioid crisis, population health is a growing area of concern for public health organizations, particularly how to care for populations effectively on a shoestring...
Kasachstan als postsowjetischer Wohlfahrtsstaat
Die Transformation des sozialen Schutzsystems
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In der öffentlichen Meinung steht Kasachstan dem Bild eines Petrostaates näher als dem eines potentiell neuen Typs von Wohlfahrtsstaat. Zu Unrecht. Fortschritte und Misserfolge der Systemtransformation dieses Landes spiegeln sich im Konzept seiner Sozialpolitik und dessen Leistungen wider. Übergeordnetes...
The Human Cost of Welfare: How the System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help
How the System Hurts the People It's Supposed to Help
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Unlike other books on welfare, this one draws on the stories of more than 100 welfare recipients who are trapped in a system that keeps them underemployed and unemployed. The authors present case studies that show that being a part of a welfare program can actively result in the recipient having to...