Policy Press: 559 books
Pioneering ethics in a longitudinal study
The early development of the ALSPAC Ethics and Law Committee
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), also known as Children of the 90s, is a world-leading birth cohort study that uniquely enrolled participants in utero and obtained genetic material from a geographic population. It instigated...
by Haslam, Simon
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2017
Consulting skills help researchers frame and define research projects, manage the social research process, engage with stakeholders and influence change. This practitioner-oriented text is the first to help social researchers and those active in the social research sector develop these skills. Drawing...
Supporting people
Towards a person-centred approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
There is widespread agreement that care and support services must change radically if they are to meet the rights and needs of the rapidly growing number of people who require them. For the first time, Supporting people explores with service users, practitioners, carers and managers what person-centred...
Managing community practice (Second edition)
Principles, policies and programmes
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
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Creative research methods in the social sciences
A practical guide
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
With foreword by Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary M. Gergen. Creative research methods can help to answer complex contemporary questions, which are hard to answer using traditional methods alone. Creative methods can also be more ethical, helping researchers to address social injustice. This accessible...
Social work with sex offenders
Making a difference
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
This topical book engages with a wide range of issues related to social work practice with people who have sexually offended. It addresses the emotional impacts of ‘facing the sex offender’, the importance of values and ethics in practice, and reviews popular and academic understandings of sex...
Student lives in crisis
Deepening inequality in times of austerity
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
In the greatest social change of the last twenty years about half of Europe’s young people now attend university. Their lived experiences are however largely undocumented. Antonucci travelled across six cities and three European countries – England, Italy and Sweden – to provide the first ever...
Building the client's relational base
A multidisciplinary handbook
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Developed from nearly 20 years' practice and consulting experience, this ground-breaking text challenges practitioners to understand, and work, with their clients as relational beings rather than independent units, whatever the presenting problem might be. The book focuses on an often neglected key...
Payment by Results and Social Impact Bonds
Outcome-based payment systems in the UK and US
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
As public services budgets are cut, the ‘Payment by Results’ (or Pay for Success) model has become a popular choice in public sector commissioning. Social Impact Bonds are a variant of Payment by Results also promoted by proponents of social (or impact) investing. But how effective are these approaches?...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017
The history of crime and punishment is an important, yet under-resourced area of criminology and criminal justice. This valuable book provides concise but robust definitions of key terms and concepts, going well beyond a simple explanation of the word or theme. Offering a succinct approach to the...
Unfolding lives
Youth, gender and change
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The process of becoming an adult in contemporary times is fragmented and unequal, shaped by chance, choice and timing. Unfolding lives presents a unique approach to understanding the changing face of youth transitions, addressing the question of how gender identities are constituted in late modern...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Commentators have long debated ‘the moral’ in ideas about moral panic, moral regulation and moral discourse. This byte teases out some of the fundamental moral questions that continue to perplex us, about life and death, good and evil, and sex and the body. With an appraisal of the work of one...
by Higgs, Paul, Gilleard
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by age and infirmity. It begins with a theoretical examination of the fourth...
New media and public activism
Neoliberalism, the state and radical protest in the public sphere
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The Arab Spring, chat forums, political leaders tweeting, online petitions, and protestors in the Occupy Movement - new media public spheres have without doubt radically altered social and political activism in society. But to what extent is this new activist public sphere stifled by the neoliberal...