Policy Press: 559 books
Women and alcohol
Social perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Issues relating to alcohol 'misuse' can only properly be understood within their social and environmental contexts. This research and practice based book explores social models of alcohol misuse to offer a sociological approach to its treatment. Through considering the social meaning of women's alcohol...
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?...
Participatory practice
Community-based action for transformative change
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
Ledwith and Springett's innovative approach bridges the divide between ideas and practice and allows the development of the knowledge that is needed to bring about transformative social change. Their ideas are founded on two premises: firstly, that transformative practice begins in the everyday stories...
Tackling child sexual abuse
Radical approaches to prevention, protection and support
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
In this outspoken and challenging book, Sarah Nelson argues that progress in addressing childhood sexual abuse has been in fearful or complacent retreat and that change is urgently needed in order to prevent abuse occurring, and to better support survivors. From this starting point, she puts forward...
The politics of public education
Reform ideas and issues
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2018
At a time when public education and reform agendas are changing the way we approach education, this book critically examines the key issues facing the public with implications for education policy makers, professionals and researchers. Drawing on empirical evidence gathered over 20 years, Helen Gunter...
Father involvement in the early years
An international comparison of policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Fatherhood is in transition and being challenged by often contradictory forces: societal mandates to be both an active father and provider, men’s own wish to be more involved with their children, and the institutional arrangements in which fathers work and live. This book explores these phenomena...
Ethnic identity and inequalities in Britain
The dynamics of diversity
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
As debates around ethnic identity and inequality gain both political and media interest, this important book is the first to offer in-depth analysis from the last three UK population censuses focusing on the dynamics of ethnic identity and inequalities in contemporary Britain. While providing a comprehensive...
Inside Crown Court
Personal experiences and questions of legitimacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
With a new Foreword by David Ormerod of the Law Commission. Within the criminal justice system of England and Wales, the Crown Court is the arena in which serious criminal offences are prosecuted and sentenced. On the basis of up-to-date ethnographic research, this timely book provides a vivid description...
by Walby, Sylvia, Towers
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The extent of violence against women is currently hidden. How should violence be measured? How should research and new ways of thinking about violence improve its measurement? Could improved measurement change policy? The book is a guide to how the measurement...
Making sense of child sexual exploitation
Exchange, abuse and young people
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is now high on the social care agenda, but what is it? How is it different from other forms of child sexual abuse? This important book puts forward the rarely heard voices of children and young people who have experienced CSE and the professionals who have worked with...
LGBT health inequalities
International perspectives in social work
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
This ground-breaking book examines inequalities experienced by LGBT people and considers the role of social work in addressing them. The book is organised in three parts: the first provides a policy context in four countries, the second examines social work practice in tackling health inequalities,...
Studying health inequalities
An applied approach
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
New public health governance arrangements under the coalition government have wide reaching implications for the delivery of health inequality interventions. Through the framework of understanding health inequalities as a 'wicked problem' the book develops an applied approach to researching, understanding...
Communicating and Engaging with Children and Young People 2e
Making a difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2018
Practitioners must be able to listen, talk, communicate and engage with children and young people if they are going to make a real difference to their lives. The key principles of collaborative, relational, child-centred working underpin all the ideas in this bestselling, practice-focused textbook....
Multidisciplinary public health
Understanding the development of the modern workforce
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Including the voices of key protagonists in the development of the public health workforce, this book is an important addition to the history of public health in England. It charts events leading to the unique achievement, from 2003, of specialist status, equivalent to public health medical consultants,...