Policy Press: 559 books
Sports criminology
A critical criminology of sport and games
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and crime. It draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology. Written from...
Repealing the 8th
Reforming Irish abortion law
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Irish law currently permits abortion only where the life of the pregnant woman is at risk. Since 1983, the 8th Amendment to the Constitution has recognised the “unborn” as having a right to life equal to that of the “mother”. Consequently, most people...
Human rights and equality in education
Comparative perspectives on the right to education for minorities and disadvantaged groups
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Thousands of children from minority and disadvantaged groups will never cross the threshold of a classroom. What can human rights contribute to the struggle to ensure that every learner is able to access high quality education? This brilliant interdisciplinary collection explores how a human rights...
Regulating police detention
Voices from behind closed doors
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
When suspects are arrested, they spend their time in police custody largely in isolation and out of public view. These custody blocks are police territory, and public controversies about what happens there often only arise when a detainee dies. Custody visitors are volunteers who make what are supposed...
Community research for participation
From theory to method
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
This book bridges a major gap in knowledge by considering, through a range of reflexive chapters from different disciplinary backgrounds, both theoretical and practical issues relating to community research methodologies. The international contributors consider a number of key epistemological, ontological...
Re-imagining contested communities
Connecting Rotherham through research
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This is a book that challenges contemporary images of ‘place’. Too often we are told about ‘deprived neighbourhoods’ but rarely do the people who live in those communities get to shape the agenda and describe, from their perspective, what is important to them. In this unique book the process...
How inequality runs in families
Unfair advantage and the limits of social mobility
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Most people agree that every child deserves an equal chance to flourish. Most also value family life. Yet the family plays a surprisingly crucial part in maintaining inequality from one generation to the next. The children of disadvantaged parents typically achieve less and die younger. Early in their...
Experiences in researching conflict and violence
Fieldwork interrupted
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
This international, edited collection brings together personal accounts from researchers working in and on conflict and explores the roles of emotion, violence, uncertainty, identity and positionality within the process of doing research, as well as the complexity of methodological choices. It highlights...
by Carnie, Christopher
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
There is a new age of philanthropy in Europe – a €50 billion plus financial market. Changing attitudes to wealth, growing social need and innovations in finance are creating a revolution in how we give, aided and sometimes abetted by governments. Mapping the changes, Christopher Carnie focuses...
The inequality crisis
The facts and what we can do about it
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
What are the causes of the rise in economic inequality in the West and what can be done about it? Inequality has at last taken centre stage in the political discourse, but there is very little to explain the inequality debates and to offer solutions for the UK. Written by an award-winning academic...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
The rapid economic growth of the past few decades has radically transformed India’s labour market, bringing millions of former agricultural workers into manufacturing industries, and, more recently, the expanding service industries, such as call centres and IT companies. Alongside this employment...
Global social work in a political context
Radical perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
How is social work shaped by global issues and international problems and how should it address them? This book employs a radical perspective to examine international social work. Globalisation had opened up many issues for social work, including how to address global inequalities, the impact of global...
Young Muslims, Pedagogy and Islam
Contexts and concepts
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
For most young people religion and religiosity is something latent or private activated by private events or the passing of years. For Muslim young people it can be activated by an incessant Islamaphobic discourse that requires fundamental questions of relationships and belonging to be addressed in...
Miseducation
Inequality, education and the working classes
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
In this book Diane Reay, herself working class turned Cambridge professor, brings Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden’s pioneering Education and the Working Class from 1962 up to date for the 21st century. Drawing on over 500 interviews, the book, part of the 21st Century Standpoints series published...