Policy Press: 559 books
Unequal ageing
The untold story of exclusion in old age
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
This powerful book analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and outcomes between older and younger people, and between different groups of older people. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides strong evidence...
Beyond behaviour change
Key issues, interdisciplinary approaches and future directions
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
‘Behaviour change’ has become a buzz phrase of growing importance to policymakers and researchers. There is an increasing focus on exploring the relationship between social organisation and individual action, and on intervening to influence societal outcomes like population health and climate...
Social work
The rise and fall of a profession?
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
This book traces the changing fortunes of radical and critical social work, and examines the theory, context and application of such approaches. Radical social work of the 1970s declined as the rise of neoliberalism over subsequent decades changed the nature of the welfare state along with what social...
The community development reader
History, themes and issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain true to its basic values it has often been manipulated to serve differing policy and political purposes. This unique Reader traces its changing fortunes...
From greed to wellbeing
A Buddhist approach to resolving our economic and financial crises
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
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 other kindred spirits to provide a Buddhist economics perspective...
by Spicker, Paul
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
In this thought-provoking book, Paul Spicker challenges readers to rethink social security benefits in Britain. Putting a case for reform of the system, Spicker argues that most of the criticisms made of social security benefits – that spending is out of control, that it has led to mushrooming dependency,...
White privilege
The myth of a post-racial society
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Why and how do those from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalised? Despite claims that we now live in a post-racial society, race continues to disadvantage those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds. Kalwant Bhopal explores how neoliberal policy making has increased...
Lived diversities
Space, place and identities in the multi-ethnic city
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Lived diversities: Space, place and identities in the multi-ethnic city is a timely and important book, which focuses on multi-ethnic interaction in an inner city area. Addressing difficult issues that are often simplistically and negatively portrayed it challenges the stereotypical denigration of...
Better health in harder times
Active citizens and innovation on the frontline
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
For years the NHS has been the most trusted of public institutions and the envy of many around the world. But today there is turmoil. Painful shortcomings in clinical care and patient experience, together with funding cuts, threaten to dig deep into service levels and standards. Seventy years of technically...
Fracture
Adventures of a broken body
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
The starting point of Ann Oakley's fascinating book is the fracture of her right arm in the grounds of a hotel in the USA. What begins as an accident becomes a journey into some critical themes of modern Western culture: the crisis of embodiment and the perfect self; the confusion between body and...
Understanding restorative justice
How empathy can close the gap created by crime
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
This unique book is a clear and detailed introduction that analyses how restorative justice nurtures empathy, exploring key themes such as responsibility, shame, forgiveness and closure. The core notion of the book is that when a crime is committed, it separates people, creating a ‘gap’. This...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The increasing impact of neoliberalism across the globe means that a complex interplay of democratic, economic and managerial rationalities now frame the parameters and practices of community development. This book explores how contemporary politics, and the power relations it reflects and projects,...
Inclusive equality
A vision for social justice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
In an era of ongoing economic failures, as governments cut support to the poorest, the richest continue to get richer and those in-between are squeezed by rising costs and flagging incomes, the challenges for social cohesion – and for social justice – seem overwhelming. As inequality increases,...
Harmful societies
Understanding social harm
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explored as an alternative field of study, which provides more accurate analyses of the vicissitudes of life. However, important aspects of this notion remain undeveloped, in particular the definition of social...