Policy Press: 559 books
Rethinking sustainable cities
Accessible, green and fair
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. Rapid urbanisation throughout China, India and many other low and middle income countries poses new challenges both locally and internationally...
The new politics
Liberal Conservatism or same old Tories?
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2011
Does the Coalition government represent a new politics in Britain, or is the new government just the same old Tories hiding behind an opportunist pact with the Liberal Democrats? Does Cameron differ from past Conservatives like Margaret Thatcher, and if so, how? This book looks at the Coalition government...
Preventing violence against women and girls
Educational work with children and young people
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
The need for children and young people to learn about violence against women and girls (VAWG) has been voiced since the late 1980s. This is the first ever book on educational work to prevent VAWG, providing the most comprehensive contribution to our knowledge and understanding in this area. By bringing...
by Jelphs, Kim, Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Working in teams sounds simple but the reality is often more difficult within complex health and social care systems. This revised edition of this essential book brings together cutting-edge thinking about teamworking, and considers how this can be turned into practice within the context of interagency...
by Pascall, Gillian
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The relationship between gender and welfare states is of key importance in understanding welfare states and gender equality and inequality. Western welfare states of the post-war era were built on assumptions about gender difference: they treated men as breadwinners and women as carers. Now governments...
by Glennerster, Howard
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
The challenge of meeting the growing cost of welfare is one of the most pressing issues facing governments of our time. Glennerster’s authoritative Understanding the cost of welfare assesses what welfare costs and how it is funded sector-by-sector. The book is written in a clear, accessible style,...
by James, Adrian
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Although police intelligence is becoming increasingly reliant on technology, it remains a human activity. This is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date account of police intelligence work based on current research, and to assess how intelligence may be used wisely and ethically...
Population ageing from a lifecourse perspective
Critical and international approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Populations around the globe are ageing rapidly. This demographic shift affects families, market structures and social provisions. This timely volume, part of the Ageing and the Lifecourse series, argues that the lifecourse perspective helps us understand the causes and effects of population ageing....
The triple bind of single-parent families
Resources, employment and policies to improve wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Single parents face a triple bind of inadequate resources, employment, and policies, which in combination further complicate their lives. This book - multi-disciplinary and comparative in design - shows evidence from over 40 countries, along with detailed...
Transnational social work
Opportunities and challenges of a global profession
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
This unique book provides an international comparison of labour markets, migrant professionals and immigration policies, and their interaction in relation to social work. Case studies based on the latest research from the UK, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and Australia allow readers to make critical...
Hungry Britain
The rise of food charity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Drawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest charitable food organisations, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity. As the welfare state withdraws, leaving food banks to protect the most vulnerable,...
Community action and planning
Contexts, drivers and outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of their own lives and neighbourhoods. Government, for its part, is keen to embrace the projects and the planning undertaken at this level, attempting to regularise...
A Handbook of Food Crime
Immoral and Illegal Practices in the Food Industry and What to Do About Them
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2018
Food today is over-corporatized and under-regulated. It is involved in many immoral, harmful, and illegal practices along production, distribution, and consumption systems. These problematic conditions have significant consequences on public health and well-being, nonhuman animals, and the environment,...
Social protection after the crisis
Regulation without enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
UK austerity policies include anti-regulatory pressures to ‘free up’ private capital to produce wealth, employment and tax revenues. This topical book by a recognised scholar on the regulation of corporate crime and social harm considers the economic, political and social consequences of the economic...