Social Services category: 2206 books
by Dr Barbara Fawcett, Brid Featherstone, Dr Jim Goddard
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2004
This important text will provide a critical analysis of contemporary developments in child care policy under New Labour and the resulting policy and practice implications. The authors will draw on sociological debates, the growing children's rights literature and wider developments within social policy...
Rebellious Parents
Parental Movements in Central-Eastern Europe and Russia
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Parental activism movements are strengthening around the world and often spark tense personal and political debate. With an emphasis on Russia and Central and Eastern Europe, this collection analyzes formal organizations as well as informal networks and online platforms which mobilize parents to advocate...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Since its implementation in 2003, the Youth Criminal Justice Act has been the subject of intense political and scholarly debate. A complicated mixture of provisions intended to provide harsher punishments for serious violent crimes while encouraging positive, non-punitive interventions in less serious...
The Politics of Evidence (Open Access)
From evidence-based policy to the good governance of evidence
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
There has been an enormous increase in interest in the use of evidence for public policymaking, but the vast...
by Thomas G. Blomberg
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
by Robert Mark Silverman, Kelly L. Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development teaches the basic skills, tools, and methods of qualitative research with special attention to the needs of community practitioners. This book teaches students entering planning, community development, nonprofit management, social work, and similar...
From Chaos to Compliance:
Communication, Control, and De-escalation of Mentally Ill & Aggressive Offenders - A Comprehensive Guidebook for Parole and Probation Officers
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Parole and probation officers must deal with individuals suffering from psychiatric or substance abuse disorders on a frequent basis. Ellis Amdur and Alan Pelton offer parole and probation officers a comprehensive set of strategies to keep themselves as well as the general public safe, while functioning...
Making Welfare Work
Reconstructing Welfare for the Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
The welfare system in the United Kingdom is broken. The number of claims has escalated and so, in consequence, have welfare expenditures. The social system does not encourage welfare recipients to become independent. Half the population of the United Kingdom lives in households drawing one of the...
The Lost Children of Wilder
The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
In 1973 Marcia Lowry, a young civil liberties attorney, filed a controversial class-action suit that would come to be known as Wilder, which challenged New York City’s operation of its foster-care system. Lowry’s contention was that the system failed the children it was meant to help because it...
by Sean Matgamna
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The economic crisis of 2008 and its aftershocks cracked the mystique which the world capitalist system had built in the two decades after the collapse of Russian and European Stalinism. For the first time in 30 years the left is on the offensive in the Labour Party.
Socialism is again on...
Child Protection Work
Beyond the Rhetoric
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2003
Based on a qualitative study of child protection practices this book takes a detailed look at what professionals actually 'do', contrasting the relatively straightforward process illustrated in procedural guidance with the uncertainty of the 'real world' of child protection work. Having observed case...
by John Paul Wright
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
by Michael J. Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
America's Agenda: Rebuilding Economic Strength
Rebuilding Economic Strength
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Cuomo's Commission on Competitiveness argues that America must reform its economic and social policies and institutions to reverse the weakening of its industrial leadership, the erosion of living standards and escalating social problems. Topics include public investment, urban poverty, health care, the environment, fiscal policy and international strategies.