Policy Press: 559 books
Troublemakers
The construction of ‘troubled families’ as a social problem
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
The launch of the Troubled Families Programme in the wake of the 2011 riots conflated poor and disadvantaged families with anti-social and criminal families. The programme aimed to ‘turn around’ the lives of the country’s most ‘troubled families’, at a time of austerity and wide-ranging...
Alternatives to neoliberalism
Towards equality and democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
In this collection, innovative and eminent social and policy analysts, including Colin Crouch, Anna Coote, Grahame Thompson and Ted Benton, challenge the failing but still dominant ideology and policies of neo-liberalism. The editors synthesise contributors’ ideas into a revised framework for social...
English planning in crisis
10 steps to a sustainable future
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
The English planning system is in crisis, argue the authors of this provocative new book. Reflecting on controversial new Government reforms and deregulation, Kate Henderson and Hugh Ellis provide a comprehensive analysis of these reforms, assessing the implications and significance for the future....
Transparency and the open society
Practical lessons for effective policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Greater transparency is increasingly seen as the answer to a wide range of social issues by governments, NGOs and businesses around the world. However, evidence of its impact is mixed. Using case studies from around the world including India, Tanzania, the UK and US, Transparency and the open society...
Promoting walking and cycling
New perspectives on sustainable travel
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Promoting walking and cycling proposes solutions to one of the most pressing problems in contemporary British transport planning. The need to develop more sustainable urban mobility lies at the heart of energy and environmental policies and has major implications for the planning of cities and for...
The purpose of planning
Creating sustainable towns and cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Planning is never far from the top of the policy or media agenda, whether this concerns 'garden-grabbing', the location of wind farms or protests about travellers' sites. The operation of the planning system raises strong views, even passions, and is highly political. Planners have to engage with...
State crime and immorality
The corrupting influence of the powerful
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
This is the first book to examine the activities of UK and international ‘role models’ through the lens of state crime and social policy. Written by experts in the field of sociology and social policy, it defines the ideal state as a single, functioning whole that ensures uniformity in the name...
Precarious Lives
Forced labour, exploitation and asylum
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
This ground breaking book presents the first evidence of forced labour among displaced migrants who seek refuge in the UK. Through a critical engagement with contemporary debates about precarity, unfreedom and socio-legal status, the book explores how asylum and forced labour are linked, and enmeshed...
White working-class voices
Multiculturalism, community-building and change
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Popular views of white working-class communities are common but knowledge of their views on multiculturalism and change less so. This important book provides the first substantial analysis of white working-class perspectives on themes of multiculturalism and change in the UK, creating an opportunity...
Dismantling the NHS?
Evaluating the impact of health reforms
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
This book provides an in-depth analysis of the NHS reforms ushered in by UK Coalition Government under the 2012 Health and Social Care Act, arguably the most extensive reforms ever introduced in the NHS. Contributions from leading researchers from the UK, the US and New Zealand examine the reforms...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Recent years have witnessed a number of 'child protection' scandals where children, often from the poorest and most marginalised communities, have been on the receiving end of violence, abuse and social harm. In this short form book, part of the Critical and Radical Debates in Social Work series,...
Parenting the crisis
The cultural politics of parent-blame
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Bad parenting is so often blamed for Britain’s ‘broken society’, manifesting in sites as diverse as the government reaction to the riots of 2011, popular ‘entertainment’ like Supernanny and the discussion boards of Mumsnet. This book examines how these pathologising ideas of failing, chaotic...
Understanding childhood
A cross disciplinary approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Childhood has become central to socio-political debates and policy initiatives both nationally and globally. Despite the privileges afforded to children in the West, Western childhoods are no longer seen as the 'ideal' to which all should aspire. Recent reports and policy concerns suggest that growing...
Champions for children, revised edition
The lives of modern child care pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Numerous books have been written about Victorian child care pioneers, but few biographical studies have been published about more recent child care and welfare giants. In the revised edition of this classic book, Bob Holman, a champion for children in his own right, looks at the lives of six inspirational...