Policy Press: 559 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
The way we think about crime and the way that society responds to it are imbued with values that can determine what is considered important and what gets attention. Sometimes values that are claimed may not be the values expressed in practice, as we see in the multiple and confusing discourses about...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Within the domains of criminal justice and mental health care, critical debate concerning ‘care’ versus ‘control’ and ‘therapy’ versus ‘security’ is now commonplace. Indeed, the ‘hybridisation’ of these areas is now a familiar theme. This unique and topical text provides an array...
by Ugwudike, Pamela
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Critical criminological theories and perspectives are typically major components of Criminology degree courses. An Introduction to Critical Criminology is the first accessible text on these topics for students of criminology, sociology and social policy. Written by an experienced lecturer who specialises...
Unaccompanied young migrants
Identity, care and justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2019
Taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, and one grounded in human rights, Unaccompanied young migrants explores in depth the journeys migrant youth take through the UK legal and care systems. Arriving with little agency, what becomes of these children as they grow and assume new roles and identities,...
Revisiting the 'Ideal Victim'
Developments in Critical Victimology
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Nils Christie’s (1986) seminal work on the ‘Ideal Victim’ is reproduced in full in this edited collection of vibrant and provocative essays that respond to and update the concept from a range of thematic positions. Each chapter celebrates and commemorates his work by analysing, evaluating and...
Education under siege
Why there is a better alternative
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
At a time when education is considered crucial to a country’s economic success, recent UK governments have insisted their reforms are the only way to make England’s system world class. Yet pupils are tested rather than educated, teachers bullied rather than trusted and parents cast as winners...
Why Detroit matters
Decline, renewal and hope in a divided city
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger. Why Detroit...
by Spiers, Shaun
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
England has a housing crisis. We need to build many more new homes to house our growing population, but house building is controversial, particularly when it involves the loss of countryside. Addressing both sides of this critical debate, Shaun Spiers argues that to drive house building on the scale...
The new age of ageing
How society needs to change
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
As we age, society’s negative assumptions mean we become a burden, a problem and the excluded ‘other’. With a convincing call to embrace all that is positive about ageing comes this timely book from the authors of Retiring with Attitude. Debunking the myth of the ageing time bomb it presents...
Police and Crime Commissioners
The transformation of police accountability
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2016
Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) are elected representatives whose role is to ensure that police forces in England and Wales are running effectively. Intended to bring a public voice to policing and hold the police to account, the holders of this controversial role also control budgets and strategic...
The rise of the Right
English nationalism and the transformation of working-class politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The shock Brexit result highlighted a worrying trend: underemployed white men and women who have seen their standard of living fall, their communities disintegrate and their sense of value, function and inclusion diminish, desperately want a mainstream political party to defend their interests. However,...
by Ross, Jeffrey Ian
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
In An introduction to political crime, Jeffrey Ian Ross provides the most comprehensive and contemporary analysis of political crime addressing both violent and nonviolent crimes committed by and against the state (e.g. political corruption, illegal domestic surveillance, and human rights violations)...
The Crosland Legacy
The future of British social democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Anthony Crosland bequeathed a significant intellectual legacy to the Labour Party including his celebrated treatise The Future of Socialism published sixty years ago. In this timely book, Patrick Diamond argues that Crosland continues to serve as a vital reference point for today’s Labour Party....
Poverty, inequality and social work
The impact of neo-liberalism and austerity politics on welfare provision
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wider welfare provision. It argues that social work should move away from the resultant emphasis on risk management and bureaucracy, and return to a focus...