Resultaten gefilterd op "Policy Press"

Developing Locally

• Hardcover | Engels
• Throughout the developed world governments have invested substantial sums in local and regional economic development. Many have spent heavily on local... Lees meer

The Triple Bind of Single-Parent Families

• Hardcover | Engels
• Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Single parents face a triple bind of inadequate resources, employment, and policies, which in combinatio... Lees meer

Responding to Hate Crime

• Hardcover | Engels
• Why has so much hate crime policy seemingly ignored academic research? And why has so much research been conducted without reference to policy? This b... Lees meer

The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity

• Hardcover | Engels
• This collection of original essays explores the myriad expressions of austerity since the 2008 financial crisis. Case studies drawn from Canada, Austr... Lees meer

Understanding Abuse in Young People's Intimate Relationships

Ceryl Teleri Davies

• Hardcover | Engels
• Ceryl Teleri Davies' research in female-only spaces informs this illuminating guide to young women's experiences of intimate relationships. Essential ... Lees meer

It's Not Where You Live, It's How You Live

John Bissett

• Hardcover | Engels
• This ground-breaking and compelling book takes us deep into the world of a public housing estate in Dublin, showing in fine detail the life struggles ... Lees meer

Children, Family and the State

Rob Creasy, Fiona Corby

• Hardcover | Engels
• For anyone studying childhood or families, a consideration of the state may not always seem obvious, yet a good critical knowledge of politics, social... Lees meer

A Deafening Silence

Patrizia Romito

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book is born of a contradiction: on the one hand, there has been a genuine advance in the awareness of violence against women and children and ac... Lees meer

The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis

• Hardcover | Engels
• Creative research methods for data generation have expanded over recent decades and researchers are eager to take a creative approach to data analysis... Lees meer

The Scapegoat

Jocelyn Brooke

• Paperback | Engels
• When Duncan Cameron's mother dies, he is sent to live with his Uncle Gerald on a remote farm in Kent. What follows is a hypnotic tale of psychological... Lees meer

Understanding Trans Health

Ruth Pearce

• Hardcover | Engels
• Addressing urgent challenges and debates in trans health, this book interweaves patient voices with social theory and autobiography, offering an innov... Lees meer

A Political History of Child Protection

Ian Kelvin Hyslop

• Hardcover | Engels
• Exploring the current and historical tensions between liberal capitalism and indigenous models of family life, Ian Kelvin Hyslop argues for a new mode... Lees meer

Studying Health Inequalities

Jonathan Wistow

• Paperback | Engels
• New public health governance arrangements under the coalition government have wide reaching implications for the delivery of health inequality interve... Lees meer

From Exclusion to Inclusion in Old Age

• Hardcover | Engels | Ageing and the Lifecourse
• Taking a broad international perspective, this highly topical book casts light on patterns and processes that either place groups of older adults at r... Lees meer

Policy Analysis in the United States

• Paperback | Engels | ISSN
• Policy Analysis in the United States brings together contributions from some of the world's leading scholars and practitioners of public policy analys... Lees meer

Psychology at the Heart of Social Change

Mick Cooper

• Hardcover | Engels
• We live in troubled times: climate crisis, war and authoritarian 'populism' are just some of the challenges we are currently facing. Never has there b... Lees meer

Young, Muslim and Criminal

Mohammed Qasim

• Hardcover | Engels
• In recent years there has been significant negative attention towards young British male Muslims, who are perceived to be increasingly dangerous and c... Lees meer

Finance for Housing

Cathy Davis

• Paperback | Engels
• The global financial crisis of 2007-08 was triggered by sub-prime mortgage mis-selling in the US and the global sale of these debts as new bonds. Aust... Lees meer

Social Interactions in Urban Public Places

Caroline Holland, Andrew Clark, Jeanne Katz, Sheila Peace

• Paperback | Engels | Public Spaces
• Public spaces allow people to meet on ostensibly neutral ground, within the context of the whole community. Social interactions in urban public places... Lees meer

Applied Ethics and Social Problems

Tony Fitzpatrick

• Hardcover | Engels
• Designed to address practical questions, applied ethics is one of the most exciting areas in contemporary philosophy. Yet the relevance of ethical the... Lees meer

Major Thinkers in Welfare

Vic George

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is the first book to examine the views of a number of theorists from ancient times to the 19th century on a range of welfare issues: wealth, pove... Lees meer

Young and Lonely

Janet Batsleer, James Duggan

• Hardcover | Engels
• Anchored in accounts of young people's personal experiences of loneliness, this book addresses important questions about tackling today's epidemic of ... Lees meer

Social Policy Review 32

James Rees, Marco Pomati, Elke Heins

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Policy Review | nr. 32
• Leading experts in the field present an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year. This volume conside... Lees meer

Managing the Ageing Experience

Denise Tanner

• Hardcover | Engels | Ageing and the Lifecourse
• Current social policy recognises that older people should be treated as experts in their own lives and be actively involved in their care. This book e... Lees meer