Policy Press: 559 books
Rematerialising children’s agency
Everyday practices in a post-socialist estate
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book is a detailed study of children’s everyday practices in a small, deprived neighbourhood of post-socialist Bratislava, called Kopčany. It provides a novel empirical insight on what it is like to be growing up after 25 years of post-socialist transformations and questions the formation...
Poverty and social exclusion in the UK: Vol. 2
Volume 2 - The dimensions of disadvantage
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
How many people live in poverty in the UK, and how has this changed over recent decades? Are those in poverty more likely to suffer other forms of disadvantage or social exclusion? Is exclusion multi-dimensional, taking different forms for different groups or places? Based on the largest UK study...
by Millie, Andrew
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Philosophical criminology asks big questions about how we get on with one another and what happens when we do not. This accessible book in the New Horizons in Criminology series is the first to foreground this growing area. The book is structured around six philosophical ideas concerning our relations...
Child protection
Managing conflict, hostility and aggression
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
As they intervene in families to reduce the risk of harm to children, child protection social workers around the world are confronting increasingly high levels of hostility and aggression from some parents. Investigations into the deaths of children known to social services have accused social...
Social movements and referendums from below
Direct democracy in the neoliberal crisis
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Over recent years, social movements formed in response to European neoliberal austerity measures have played an increasingly important role in referendums. This is the first book to bridge the gap between social movement studies and research on direct democracy. It draws on social movement theory...
Children behind bars
Why the abuse of child imprisonment must end
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Every day children exiled to prison are exposed to abusive and neglectful treatment, yet their plight is hidden. Based on wide-ranging research and first-person interviews, this passionately argued book presents the shocking truth about the lives and deaths of children in custody. Drawing on human...
Rebuilding social democracy
Core principles for the centre left
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
The British Labour Party is in crisis. A prolonged period of government between 1997 and 2010 saw the party intellectually exhausted. The subsequent leadership of Ed Miliband ultimately failed with the loss of the 2015 General Election, and the party now finds itself without a clearly defined set...
by Kehily, Mary Jane, Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
What does motherhood mean today? Drawing on interviews with new mothers and intergenerational chains of women in the same family, this exciting and timely book documents the transition to motherhood over generations and time. Exploring, amongst other things, the trend to later motherhood and the experience...
Moving on from crime and substance use
Transforming identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Desistance is one of the big news stories of the criminological world. Research suggests that, as ‘offenders’ turn their backs on crime, they often change their identities as well as their behaviour. Yet we know much less about how reforming or transforming identity might be affected by gender,...
Supporting struggling students on placement
A practical guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Are you a practitioner, supervisor, practice educator, mentor or university tutor supporting students who are struggling on, or failing, their practice placement? Here is the practical guidance you need. Jo Finch draws on both her own experience training Practice Educators, and international multi-disciplinary...
Applying leadership and management in planning
Theory and practice
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Planning is central to economic, social and environmental life but its practice is frequently criticised by all who engage in it. Seen as too restrictive by those who promote development and too weak by those opposing it, planners who advise on proposals cannot sit on the fence. Is it the planning...
Participatory research
Working with vulnerable groups in research and practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
This book examines the nature of participatory research in the social sciences and its role in increasing participation among vulnerable or marginalised populations. Drawing on engaging in-depth case studies, it examines the ways in which inclusion and collaboration in research can be enhanced among...
by Hubbard, Rachel, Stone
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2018
Best Interests Assessors (BIA) are specialist practitioners with a unique professional identity. This is the first book to consider this complex role in depth, offering practical guidance and exploring its particular challenges in the context of the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Drawing on contributions from user activists and academic researchers, this topical reader provides a critical stock take of the state of user involvement. It considers different contexts in which such involvement is taking place and includes diverse and sometimes conflicting perspectives on the issues...