Policy Press: 559 books
by Sayer, Andrew
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
As inequalities widen and the effects of austerity deepen, in many countries the wealth of the rich has soared. Why we can’t afford the rich exposes the unjust and dysfunctional mechanisms that allow the top 1% to siphon off wealth produced by others, through the control of property and money. Leading...
by Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Which underlying problems pose the greatest threat to British society in the 21st century? A hundred years after its philanthropist founder identified poverty, alcohol, drugs and gambling among the social evils of his time, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation initiated a major consultation among leading...
by Adams, Robert
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as...
Supporting people with alcohol and drug problems
Making a difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Social workers and other social care professionals regularly face the challenges of working with people with alcohol and other drug problems. Yet many receive little, if any, training for working with these issues. As substance use and its social impact on communities and families rises up the political...
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...
Injustice (revised edition)
Why social inequality still persists
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
In the five years since the first edition of Injustice there have been devastating increases in poverty, hunger and destitution in the UK. Globally, the richest 1% have never held a greater share of world wealth, while the share of most of the other 99% has fallen in the last five years, with more...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Mental health social work is at an impasse. On the one hand, the emphasis in recent policy documents on the social roots of much mental distress ,and in the recovery approaches popular with service users seems to indicate an important role for a holistic social work practice. On the other hand, social...
by Golding, Tyrrell, Conradie
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Childhood and youth have become increasingly important key concepts across a range of disciplines, professions and studies. The short guide to working with children and young people is an accessible introduction into the main concepts, developments and policy related to this exciting area of work....
Youth marginality in Britain
Contemporary studies of austerity
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Tabloid headlines such as ‘Anti-social Feral Youth,’ ‘Vile Products of Welfare in the UK’ and ‘One in Four Adolescents is a Criminal’ have in recent years obscured understanding of what social justice means for young people and how they experience it. Youth marginality in Britain offers...
Gendering women
Identity and mental wellbeing through the lifecourse
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Gendering Women is an engaging and accessible account of how constructions of femininity fundamentally affect women's mental wellbeing through the life course. Led by women’s life history accounts of growing up and growing older in the north of England, this book shows how experiences of becoming...
The creative citizen unbound
How social media and DIY culture contribute to democracy, communities and the creative economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
The creative citizen unbound introduces the concept of ‘creative citizenship’ to explore the potential of civic-minded creative individuals in the era of social media and in the context of an expanding creative economy. Drawing on the findings of a 30-month study of communities supported by the...
What matters in policing?
Change, values and leadership in turbulent times
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Policing is at a turbulent turning point: the pace of change is accelerating with renewed emphasis on crime reduction yet with austerity. This topical book examines what matters in policing, rather than just what works. It compares the implications of restructuring in the UK and The Netherlands, also...
Did the Millennium Development Goals work?
Meeting future challenges with past lessons
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
With the target date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) behind us, this book asks did they work? And what happens next? Arguing that to effectively look forward, we must first look back, the editors of this insightful book gather leading scholars and practitioners from a range of backgrounds...
by Tauri, Juan, Cunneen
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Indigenous Criminology is the first book to comprehensively explore Indigenous people’s contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. Drawing on comparative Indigenous material from North America, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, it addresses both the theoretical...