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Chris Crowther
Policing Urban Poverty demonstrates that, since the nineteenth century, a core task of the police has been crime control and order maintenance, especially in poor communities. This book focuses on…
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N. Thomas
This study of children’s participation in decisions about their care draws on recent work in sociology and anthropology, psychology and legal philosophy in order to understand this challenging area of…
P. Hoggett
Social policy and political theory are based upon rationalist models of the human subject. Drawing particularly upon contemporary Kleinian and feminist political theory the author explores the powerful role that…
Geraldine Moane
Drawing on the writings of diverse authors, including Jean Baker Miller, Bell Hooks, Mary Daly, Frantz Fanon, Paulo Freire and Ignacio Martin-Baro, as well as on women’s experiences, this book…
J. Radcliffe
At the heart of the green debate are a set of basic contradictions concerning beliefs and actions. This book reveals the problems associated with these contradictions, including adherence to decentralized…
J. Mahon,Jo Campling
Simone de Beauvoir made her own distinctive contribution to existentialism in the form of an ethics which diverged sharply from that of Jean-Paul Sartre. In her novels and philosophical essays…
C. Hug,Jo Campling
The research for this book was prompted by a combination of events, in particular the election of Mary Robinson to the Presidency and the X Case which rocked Irish society.
C. Hug
The text is an exploration of the dynamics between the courts, the legislators and the Irish citizens in relation to certain socio sexual questions: divorce, contraception, abortion, and homosexuality.
J. Waterson
Drinking alcohol can be immensely pleasurable and life-enhancing. On the other hand, it can be associated with danger and risk. This book explores some of the implications of this dichotomy…
H. Mikkeli
Heikki Mikkeli charts the history of the idea of Europe and European identity. The first part introduces the various attempts to unify Europe from antiquity to the European Union. In…
Creating systematic links between social conditions and psychological patterns, this work aims to develop a liberation psychology which would aid in transforming the damaging psychological patterns associated with oppression and…
John Lynch
The city of Belfast tends to be discussed in terms of its distinctiveness from the rest of Ireland, an industrial city in an agricultural country. When these cities are compared…
T. Fitzpatrick
A basic income would be an income paid periodically and unconditionally to every man, woman and child as a fundamental right of citizenship and without reference to employment, marital and…
E. Salminen
The author describes in detail how the Soviet Union operated both overtly and covertly in the propaganda war and discusses the reactions of the west - the United States, Great…
P. Cox
The first major study of the history of British bad girls, this book uses a wide range of professional, popular and personal texts to explore the experiences of girls in…
L. Fawcett
In Religion, Ethnicity and Social Change the author argues that the recent focus on religious fundamentalism in ethnic conflict has obscured the ambiguous role of ‘mainstream’ Western religion. The book…
Lorraine Fox Harding
A look at the changing nature of the family; and the relationship between family and state, as it is expressed in social policy. The book explores and clarifies the significance…
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Pauline M. Prior
This text offers a gendered and cross-cultural analysis of the experience of mental disorder and of society’s response to people suffering from it. It discusses the differences and similarities between…
John J. Rodger
This text critically assesses the range of academic and political debates around the questions such a shift raises, exploring how far social solidarity is possible when social inequality has become…
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David W. Jones
This book covers the experiences of families of people suffering from severe mental illness. It is argued that families often struggle with complex feelings such as loss and shame, and…
Professor Chris Johnson
Women’s lives in southern Africa have undergone immense changes. War and economic hardship have separated families, education and outside influences have changed ideas about family life. This book records some…
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David Watson,Janice West
This new textbook examines the knowledge, skills and values that underpin and inform current social work practice and processes. With a clear focus on skills, social work processes and the…
Kathy Ford,Alan Jones
This handbook is a practical and comprehensive guide to supervising social work students in their practice placements. Illustrated with numerous examples from present-day social work settings, the book provides a…
Nigel Parton,Patrick O'Byrne
Recent years have witnessed increased international interest in the relevance of social theories associated with postmodernism, social constructionism and narrative approaches for social work. The central aim of this book…
Judith Milner,Patrick O'Byrne
This book presents both solution focused and narrative approaches to brief counselling. Acknowledging the expertise of ordinary people in devising solutions to their problems, it reflects the current interest in…
The opening chapters suggest that transitions in welfare capitalism can be understood in terms of shifts in dominant ‘corporeal’ discourses. The body as a focus for power and resistance in…
Margaret Melrose,H. Dean
At a time when the gap between rich and poor has been increasing, this book provides an accessible introduction to current debates about inequality, exclusion and the nature of citizenship…
Patrick O'Mahony,Gerard Delanty
This book provides a critical interpretation of the construction of Irish national identity in the longer perspective of history. Drawing on recent sociological theory, the authors demonstrate how national identity…
The psychology of women’s health is an area traditionally controlled by male-orientated scientists, psychologists and doctors. In this book women’s views and their experience of their own health and health…
R. McQuaid,K. Glancey
Entrepreneurial Economics covers a range of economic and non-economic theories of the characteristics and behaviour of entrepreneurs. Also considered are government policies to increase the number of entrepreneurs in the…
C. Fanning,D. Mahony
This book shows how Keynes’ masterpieces is best understood not as an attempt to tackle the immediate policy issues of his age but to extend the range of thought available…
J. Stewart,Chris Grover
The authors use regulation to explain the antecedents to current welfare developments in Britain. They show how first a Conservative government in the 1970s, and more recently ‘New Labour’, have…
This book shows how Keynes’s work is best understood not as an attempt to tackle the immediate policy issues of this age but to extend the range of thought available…
Jo Campling
The body as a focus for power and resistance in differing welfare regimes is further explored in individual contributions on health and social care, bodily metaphors in social policy and…
Valerie Bryson,Jo Campling,Peter Derrick
Are women still oppressed? Is paid employment the key to liberation? This study draws on a range of material to provide an account of feminist debates, analyze the situation of…
Gerald Smale,Graham Tuson,Daphne Statham
The organisation of social work is changing radically as we move into the 21st century. This book describes how social work teams can respond to social problems in a way…
E. Haavio-Mannila,O. Kontula,A. Rotkirch
This study presents us with a sociological exploration of sexual practice, within five different types of relationship and from varying perspectives of gender and age: lifelong love; serial loves; searching…
This study presents us with an insightful sociological exploration of sexual practice, within five different types of relationship and from varying perspectives of gender and age: lifelong love;
Elizabeth M. Unett,Jo Campling,Amanda J. Royle
The science and art of image production form the corner stone for these working practices where radiographic skills and image quality lead to the provision of a caring, quality service.
Using case-studies from Oxford to Beijing and Chicago, Women and the City shows women constructing their lives in the urban environment, sometimes working against a system where needs are marginalized.
The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing…
