Social Policy category: 9249 books
Finding Lost Childhoods
Supporting Care-Leavers to Access Personal Records
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
This book explores care-leavers’ access to their personal records. People who grew up in care in previous decades may know little about their family nor understand why they were placed in care nor how decisions were made about their lives. Personal records can be a source of this information. Murray...
Low Fertility, Institutions, and their Policies
Variations Across Industrialized Countries
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This volume examines ten economically advanced countries in Europe and Asia that have experienced different levels of fertility decline. It offers readers a cross-country perspective on the causes and consequences of low birth rates and the different policy responses to this worrying trend.
The...
It’s Basic Income
The global debate
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Is a Universal Basic Income the answer to an increasingly precarious job landscape? Could it bring greater financial freedom for women, tackle the issue of unpaid but essential work, cut poverty and promote greater choice? Or is it a dead-end utopian ideal that distracts from more practical and cost-effective...
by James Armitage, Sheila Brown, Mark Halsey
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
How is the modern world shaping young people and youth crime? What impact is this having on the latest policies and practice? Are current youth justice services working? With contributions from leading researchers in the field, this book offers an insightful, scholarly and critical analysis of such...
Social Protection and Social Development
International Initiatives
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The Social Protection Floor Initiative promotes universal access to essential social transfers and services. Presently 80% of the global population does not enjoy a set of social guarantees that allows them to deal with life’s risks such as unemployment, ill health, and natural disasters. This book...
Irregular Immigration in Southern Europe
Actors, Dynamics and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Focusing on the dynamics of irregular immigration in Southern EU Member States, this book analyses how the phenomenon is managed at national and local levels in different legal and political systems. In doing so, it answers vital policy questions regarding the continued existence of irregular migration,...
Why we need welfare
Collective action for the common good
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
What is welfare? Why is it a key part of the ‘common good’ for all? And how should we go about providing it? Pete Alcock, a well-respected expert, explains the challenges that collective welfare faces, and explores the complexities involved in delivering it, including debates about who benefits...
Not This Time
Canadians, Public Policy, and the Marijuana Question, 1961-1975
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2006
Drugs are part of every society, consumed for ritual or religious purposes, for pleasure, to enhance athletic performance, or as a means to relieve pain. Throughout the twentieth century, however, an arbitrary and shifting distinction was made between legal drugs that were prescribed and administered...
Evidence-Based Practice in Juvenile Justice
Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Over the past 15 years, evidence-based practice in juvenile justice has moved from a concept to a full blown practice in a number of states. They have used research based principles and programs to: - completely reorganize their system for treating juveniles -reduce crime and recidivism -and saved...
by Xiaolin Wang, Limin Wang, Yan Wang
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
The rapid growth over the past three decades has been instrumental in lifting over 600 million people in China out of poverty, and people want to know why and how it happened. International evidence has made it clear that a global economy based on current patterns of consumption and production is...
Researching Quality in Care Transitions
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
This book is concerned with the complexities of achieving quality in care transitions. The organization and accomplishment of high quality care transitions relies upon the coordination of multiple professionals, working within and across multiple care processes, settings and organizations, each with...
Open Borders and International Migration Policy
The Effects of Unrestricted Immigration in the United States, France, and Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Although philosophers debate the morality of open borders, few social scientists have explored what would happen if immigration were no longer limited. This book looks at three examples of temporarily unrestricted migration in Miami, Marseille, and Dublin and finds that the effects were much less catastrophic than opponents of immigration claim.
Why Don't You Just Talk to Him?
The Politics of Domestic Abuse
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Why Don't You Just Talk to Him? looks at the broad political contexts in which violence, specifically domestic violence, occurs. Kathleen Arnold argues that liberal and Enlightenment notions of the social contract, rationality and egalitarianism -- the ideas that constitute norms of good citizenship...
For whose benefit?
The everyday realities of welfare reform
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2017
What does day-to-day life involve for those who receive out-of-work benefits? Is the political focus on moving people from ‘welfare’ and into work the right one? And do mainstream political and media accounts of the ‘problem’ of ‘welfare’ accurately reflect lived realities? For whose benefit?...