Policy Press: 559 books
by Cahill, Suzanne
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The time has come to further challenge biomedical and clinical thinking about dementia, which has for so long underpinned policy and practice. Framing dementia as a disability, this book takes a rights-based approach to expand the debate. Applying a social constructionist lens, it builds on earlier...
The Governance of Female Drug Users
Women's Experiences of Drug Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This book is the first to examine how female drug user's identities, and hence their experiences, are shaped by drug policies. It analyses how the subjectivities ascribed to women users within drug policy sustain them in their problematic use and reinforce their social exclusion. Challenging popular...
by Webb, P. Taylor, Gulson
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
The empirical focus of this book is on the twenty year struggle by parents and members of the Black community in Toronto to introduce an Africentric Alternative School (AAS) with Black-focused curricula. It brings together a seemingly disparate series of events that emerged from equity and multicultural...
School governance
Policy, politics and practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
What impact have the unprecedented and rapid changes to the structure of education in England had on school governors and policy makers? And what effect has the intensifying media and regulatory focus had on the volunteers who take on the job? Jacqueline Baxter takes the 2014 ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal,...
by White, Anne
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2017
Based on 115 interviews with Polish mothers in the UK and Poland, as well as a specially-commissioned opinion poll, this topical book discusses recent Polish migration to the UK. In a vivid account of every stage of the migration process, the book explores why so many Poles have migrated since 2004,...
Women rough sleepers in Europe
Homelessness and victims of domestic abuse
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Women’s rough sleeping is a major issue across Europe and is especially problematic within the current economic climate. Based on a European Union DAPHNE III-funded project, this important book tells the story of the women and organisations that took part in the study. Revealing a number of truths...
Dealing with welfare conditionality
Implementation and effects
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2019
This edited collection considers how conditional welfare policies and services are implemented and experienced by a diverse range of welfare service users across a range of UK policy domains including social security, homelessness, migration and criminal justice. The book showcases the insights and...
Brain culture
Shaping policy through neuroscience
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This unique book offers a timely analysis of the impact of rapidly advancing knowledge about the brain, mind and behaviour on contemporary public policy and practice. Examining developments in behaviour change policies, neuroscience, architecture and urban design, education, and workplace training...
Shoot to kill
Police accountability, firearms and fatal force
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell underground station in 2005 raised acute issues about operational practice, legitimacy, accountability and policy making regarding police use of fatal force. It dramatically exposed a policy, referred to popularly as 'shoot to kill', which came...
Negotiating cohesion, inequality and change
Uncomfortable positions in local government
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
How are multiculturalism, inequality and belonging understood in the day-to-day thinking and practices of local government? Examining original empirical data, this book explores how local government officers and politicians negotiate 'difficult subjects' linked with community cohesion policy: diversity,...
The Passionate Economist
How Brian Abel-Smith shaped global health and social welfare
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Brian Abel-Smith was one of the most influential expert advisers of the 20th century in shaping social welfare. He was a modern-day Thomas Paine, driven by a strong socialist mission to improve the lives of the poorest. This valuable and accessible book is the first biography of Abel-Smith. It takes...
Indigeneity: a politics of potential
Australia, Fiji and New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
This original book is the first comprehensive integration of political theory to explain indigenous politics. It assesses the ways in which indigenous and liberal political theories interact to consider the practical policy implications of the indigenous right to self-determination. Providing opportunities...
The global financial crisis and austerity
A basic introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Given the huge impact of the 2008 financial crash and post-crash austerity on so many people’s lives, there is a need for a concise, accessible guide to its causes and its longer-term significance. Written by an expert in political science and straddling finance, economics and political science,...
by Lowe, Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
The emergence of Britain as a fully fledged home-owning society at the end of the 20th century has major implications for how houses are used not just as a home but as an asset. The key debate in this important and timely book is whether social policy and people's homes should be so closely connected,...