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  • The Public Health Approach to Violence Reduction

    Stories, Movements, and Hope

    by Alistair Fraser, Luke Billingham, Fern Gillon, Keir Irwin-Rogers, Susan McVie, Tim Newburn ...
    Series series Clarendon Studies in Criminology
    In recent years, the UK has seen the emergence of a new approach to violence reduction—the public health approach. This method prioritises early intervention and holistic support to prevent violence upstream. This movement, based in part on a perceived success story in Scotland, has led to the founding of more than twenty Violence Reduction Units in England and Wales, and more than £200m of ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Preventing Violence

    The Past, Present and Future of the Public Health Approach

    by Keir Irwin-Rogers, Luke Billingham, Alistair Fraser, Fern Gillon, Susan McVie, Tim Newburn ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Preventing Violence argues that we can move towards safer and better societies by advancing holistic public health approaches to violence prevention.It explores the serious limitations of contemporary public health approaches and proposes an alternative path forward. Based on data from a three-year, ESRC-funded project 'Public Health, Youth ... Read more

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    Edited by T. G. K. Bryce ...
    Mollie Gerver considers when bodies such as the UN, government agencies and NGOs ought to help refugees to return home. Drawing on original interviews with 172 refugees before and after repatriation, she resolves six moral puzzles arising from repatriation using the methods of analytical philosophy to provide a more ethical framework. ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Great Mistakes in Education Policy

    And How to Avoid Them in the Future

    by Ruth Lupton, Debra Hayes ...
    Education policies should drive success and equity but in many countries they are failing to do so. Situating the cases of England and Australia within broader global policy trends, this book critically analyses what has gone wrong.The authors draw on extensive research in education to review the impact of multiple policies on students, teachers and schools, with a focus on communities where ... Read more

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  • Policy and Social Work Practice

    Edited by Frank Keating, Tony Evans ...
    Social policy is central to social work practice. This textbook is designed to help students, practitioners and academics think critically about the relationship between policy and practice; particularly in how policy both structures and informs practice. Reflective questions help critical thinking and links to websites of substantive information across the UK and internationally help keep you up ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Poverty

    by Ruth Lister ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to the meaning and experience of poverty in the contemporary world.The book opens with a lucid discussion of current debates around the definition and measurement of poverty in industrialized societies, before ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The short guide to social work

    by Robert Adams ...
    Series series Short Guides
    This engaging and accessible text offers a concise overview of social work which will appeal to anyone needing a quick introduction to social work as a discipline. It contains essential information for all prospective and new social work students, the theories and policy and practice frameworks as well as current issues facing social work today. Illustrated with many examples from practice, it ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Child Protection Systems in the United Kingdom

    A Comparative Analysis

    by Nigel Parton, Anne Stafford, Sharon Vincent, Connie Smith ...
    Child protection systems differ across the four countries of the United Kingdom, and understanding the differences provide important opportunities for learning and improving day-to-day practice.This authoritative book compares UK child protection systems with other systems world-wide as well as scrutinising and comparing the systems in different parts of the UK. Reflecting on the impact of ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The community development reader

    History, themes and issues

    Edited by Gary Craig, Marjorie Mayo, Keith Popple, Mae Shaw, Marilyn Taylor ...
    Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain true to its basic values it has often been manipulated to serve differing policy and political purposes. This unique Reader traces its changing fortunes through a selection of readings from key writers. It will be invaluable to those pursuing community ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • A Contemporary History of Social Work

    Learning from the Past

    by Terry Bamford ...
    Drawing on lessons from the recent history of social work to identify how and why it has lost its privilege and influence, this book challenges social work students to understand why social work has failed to maintain its position as a driver of social reform. Bamford looks forward to a new model of practice that places a commitment to put social justice back at the heart of professional practice ... Read more

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  • The Short Guide to Working with Children and Young People

    by Liesl Conradie, Tyrrell Golding ...
    Series series Short Guides
    Childhood and youth have become increasingly important key concepts across a range of disciplines, professions and studies. The short guide to working with children and young people is an accessible introduction into the main concepts, developments and policy related to this exciting area of work. Divided into two parts, the opening chapters prepare readers to think about work with children and ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Special Needs In Singapore: Trends And Issues

    by Meng Ee Wong, Levan Heng Fook Lim ...
    The fields of special needs education and disability in Singapore have witnessed significant changes and developments especially during the past two decades in the wake of Singapore's evolution towards its vision as an inclusive society. This collection of chapters presents information, knowledge, research, and perspectives across a wide range of topics and issues that are relevant to the lives of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD