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  • Unemployment, Crime, and Offenders

    by Iain Crow, Paul Richardson, Carol Riddington, Frances Simon ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Work & Society
    The preoccupation with the unemployment-crime link has meant that a number of other concerns about the way that unemployment affects the criminal justice system, and ways of dealing with offenders, have been largely ignored. This book, originally published in 1989, brings together research from a variety of sources relating to unemployment. This research provides much information on the practical, ... Read more

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  • Unfinished Business

    Social Policy for Social Care Students in Ireland

    by Joe Moran ...
    With social and community services coming under increasing pressure as austerity continues, Unfinished Business examines how social policy has operated in Ireland and how it has been affected by consistent government cutbacks. It examines a wide range of issues important to social care students, such as poverty, homelessness, disability, immigrants, mental health and many other issues pertinent to ... Read more

    $10.00 USD

  • Brexit

    Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union

    by Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin, Paul Whiteley ...
    In June 2016, the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. As this book reveals, the historic vote for Brexit marked the culmination of trends in domestic politics and in the UK's relationship with the EU that have been building over many years. Drawing on a wealth of survey evidence collected over more than ten years, this book explains why most people decided to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Cash Not Care: the planned demolition of the UK welfare state

    by Mo Stewart ...
    An A4 referenced text.“Cash Not Care will make you feel angry, sad and inspired in equal measures. This is a book that needs to be widely read and talked about.” Dr Kayleigh Garthwaite ~ Postdoctoral Research Associate, Centre for Health and Inequalities Research, the University of Durham“Government is entitled to ensure that benefits are given to those with a genuine entitlement and to assess ... Read more

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  • The War on Disabled People

    Capitalism, Welfare and the Making of a Human Catastrophe

    by Ellen Clifford ...
    Winner of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing Award 2021In 2016, a United Nations report found the UK government culpable for 'grave and systematic violations' of disabled people's rights. Since then, driven by the Tory government's obsessive drive to slash public spending whilst scapegoating the most disadvantaged in society, the situation for disabled people in Britain has continued ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Politics of Crime, Punishment and Justice

    Exploring the Lived Reality and Enduring Legacies of the 1980’s Radical Right

    by Stephen Farrall, Emily Gray ...
    This book explores the impact of right-wing political ideology on crime, the criminal justice system, and attitudes towards punishment in Britain. Grounded in a rigorous analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys such as the British Social Attitudes Survey and the British Crime Survey, as well as individual-level cohort data such as the 1958 National Child Development Study and the 1970 British ... Read more

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  • Disabled People, Work and Welfare

    Is Employment Really the Answer?

    Edited by Chris Grover, Linda Piggott ...
    EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This is the first book to challenge the concept of paid work for disabled people as a means to ‘independence’ and ‘self determination’. Recent attempts in many countries to increase the employment rates of disabled people have actually led to an erosion of financial support for many workless disabled people and their increasing ... Read more

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  • Unequal Health

    The Scandal of Our Times

    by Danny Dorling ...
    Health inequalities are the most important inequalities of all. In the US and the UK these inequalities have now reached an extent not seen for over a century. Most people's health is much better now than then, but the gaps in life expectancy between regions, between cities, and between neighbourhoods within cities now surpass the worst measures over the last hundred years. In almost all other ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Understanding Crime and Social Policy

    by Emma Wincup ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    Understanding crime and social policy explores the interface between crime and social policy, drawing upon international theoretical developments and empirical research from within Criminology and Social Policy. Written by an experienced author, it uses analysis of policy-making under the New Labour and Conservative-Liberal Democrat governments to reflect upon the multiplicity of influences which ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Understanding Disability Policy

    by Alan Roulstone, Simon Prideaux ...
    Series series Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
    In an era of scarce social resources the question of the changing social policy constructions and responses to disabled people has become increasingly important. Paradoxically, some disabled people are realising new freedoms and choices never before envisioned, whilst others are prey to major retractions in public services and aggressive attempts to redefine who counts as 'genuinely disabled' ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Child Law for Social Work

    by Jane Williams ...
    An invaluable resource for all social workers in practice with children and families, this book examines key issues such as child protection, family support, care planning, adoption and case preparation for court. With illustrative case studies throughout, the text is divided into two sections:" Part 1 explores the legal context of social work practice with children, examining how international ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Making an Impact - Children and Domestic Violence

    A Reader

    by Chris Pearson, Marianne Hester, Nicola Harwin, Hilary Abrahams ...
    This fully updated Reader provides a comprehensive review of recent research and legislation relating to domestic violence and its consequences for children, and identifies the implications for practice.It is divided into three parts. Part One describes evidence for the links between domestic violence and the concomitant abuse of children and assesses the effects on children's future well-being. ... Read more

    $36.09 USD