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  • Social Infrastructure in Neighbourhoods and Cities

    Studying the Facilities That Sustain Community, Social Networks, and Trust

    by Peter Dirksmeier, Angelina Göb, Liza Griffin, Kay Pallaris, Hannah Widmer, Lee Crookes, Beth Perry, Irene Manzini Ceinar, Regan Koch, Liz Cox, Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika S. Svendsen, Michelle L. Johnson, Laura Landau, David Trouille, Michael DeLand, Alasdair Jones, Sophie Yarker, Luke Billingham, Alison Stennng, Olivia Theocharides-Feldman, Julia King, David Prytherch, Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiro, Mave Blackman, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, Lucy Natarajan, Myfanwy Taylor, John Tomaney, Gesine Tuitjer, Leonie Tuitjer, Anna-Lisa Müller, Ersilia Verlinghieri, Rachel Aldred, Asa Thomas, Harriet Larrington-Spencer, Salene Schloffel-Armstrong, David Conradson, Owen Garling, Matthew Wolfe, Eric Klinenberg ...
    From parks and libraries to pubs and schools, social infrastructures are the everyday places that bring people together, support community life, and foster connection. As interest in the concept grows, this timely and accessible edited collection offers a comprehensive overview of social infrastructure—its origins, development, and practical impact.Packed with innovative case studies from the UK, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • 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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  • Against Youth Violence

    A Social Harm Perspective

    by Luke Billingham, Keir Irwin-Rogers ...
    Series series Studies in Social Harm
    Available open access digitally under a CC-BY-NC-ND licence.For many children and young people, Britain is a harmful society in which to grow up. This book contextualizes the violence that occurs between a small number of young people within a wider perspective on social harm.Aimed at academics, youth workers and policy makers, the book presents a new way to make sense of this pressing social ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • The short guide to social work

    by Robert Adams ...
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    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

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  • Childhood and Society

    by Michael Wyness ...
    The new edition of this established core textbook continues to give an insightful, authoritative and accessible overview of competing theoretical positions on the sociological study of childhood. The book explores the ways these theories inform key themes, including education, work, identity and agency.The study of childhood has taken on an increasingly global focus in recent years, honing in on ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Critical Perspectives On Educational Leadership

    Edited by John Smyth ...
    This book is an edited collection of original papers which challenge in a very direct manner the dominant behviourist and functionalist views that have come to entrap those who live, work and conduct research in the areas of educational leadership, and focusing instead on the structures and processes within schools as organisations that frustrate, distort and ultimately stifle educative ... Read more

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