Social welfare and social services Books

The turn of the 1990s saw a number of high profile public inquiries into the handling of child sexual abuse cases in Great Britain. In examines the implications of these inquiries on the regulation of relationships between families and the state,...

Worldwide societal problems such as mass unemployment, growing social disparities, public and private poverty, social exclusion, environmental destruction and the evidence of climate change are increasing and becoming ever more visible. They require...

The short lifetime of digital technologies means that generational identities are difficult to establish around any particular technologies let alone around more far-reaching socio-technological 'revolutions'. Examining the consumption and use of digital...

Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; G.Vaggi - PART 1: INDUSTRY VERSUS AGRICULTURE: THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF SECTORS AND DEVELOPMENT - Orthodox Development Theories and their Applications to Less Developed Countries; A.Bhaduri - Perspectives...

Reengineering: An Objectoriented Model for Data, Knowledge and System Reengineering (S.M. Huang et al.). Uturn Methodology: A Database Reengineering Methodology Based on the Entity -Structure- Relationship Data Model (I.K. Jeong, D.K. Baik). The ...

Induction Machines: Magnetic Field Analysis in Induction Motors in the Fieldoriented Mode (G. Henneberger, M. Schmitz). Other Synchronous Machines: Use of Cubic Finite Elementboundary Element Coupling Method in the Computation of the ...

Control Methodology: Robust Exponential Convergence with Bounded Controllers (M. Corless, G. Leitmann). Second Variation Conditions for the Optimal Control Problem with Normalized Final Time (D.G. Hull, C.N. D'Souza). A New Tool for Robust Control (A...

Do international bureaucracies have a meaningful influence on world politics? Using the UN Secretariat and the evolution of UN peacekeeping as an example, this book shows that even international bureaucracies with limited autonomy can shape international...

This book explains the differences between European countries in the supply and forms of public child care and preschool provisions by reference to the historical context in which these forms originated and to the institutional constraints underlying...

The current economic crisis has presented itself as a formidable challenge to the welfare states of Europe. It is more relevant than ever to ask: do existing minimum income protection schemes succeed in adequately protecting citizens, be it whether...

Animals and Social Work represents a pioneering contribution to the literature of social work ethics and moral philosophy. It advances cogent and detailed arguments for the inclusion of animals within social work's moral framework, arguments that have...

Blades, Blood and Bandages tells the stories of 25 people's experiences of self-injury. In so doing, themes which have so far been under represented in the study of this phenomenon are brought to the fore. In particular, it investigates how people who...

Is a Confucian cultural climate hostile to gender equality in families and public decision-making? What is the impact of gender equality legislation in East Asia? Approaches to these welfare regimes have ignored gender, while gendered accounts of welfare...

This book discusses what Jacques Lacan's oeuvre contributes to our understanding of psychosis. Presenting a close reading of original texts, Stijn Vanheule proposes that Lacan's work on psychosis can best be framed in terms of four broad periods.

Explores the role of governments in creating and regulating private pensions in the UK and Germany since the 1980s. Private pensions have given rise to a new regulatory state in this area.The contributing authorscompare pension regulation and utility...

An exploration of Immanuel Kant's account of war and the controversies that have arisen from its interpretation. This book brings the ideas of Kant's critical philosophy to bear on one of the leading political and legal questions of our age: under what...

Using an innovative approach in critical psychology, this study examines collectivity, participation, and subjectivity, and the social theories that may help us understand these matters.

Popular Medievalism in RomanticEra Britain examines ways in which British writers and readers used the idea of the Middle Ages to challenge contemporary political structures and to claim historical national rights at a time when fears that Britain would...

What does it mean to say you're English, Scottish, British? Does it matter much to people? Has devolution and constitutional change made a difference to national identity? Does the future of the UK depend on whether or not people think they are British?...

Approaching family through the lens of food, this book provides a new perspective on the diversity of contemporary family life, challenging received ideas about the decline of the family meal, the individualization of food choice and the relationship...

This edited volume provides new empirical evidence of far-reaching changes to welfare states globally, which have changed the boundaries of the 'public' and 'private' domain within the mixed economies of welfare. Various modes of policy intervention are...

Introduction: Contested Bodies of Children and Youth; K. Hörschelmann& R. Colls Children's Bodies: An Absent Presence; G. Valentine Part I: Imagining Bodies Femininity and Body Image: Promoting Positive Body Image in the 'Culture of Slenderness'; S...

The black ghetto is a byproduct of American social policy. It came into being within policies that were adopted - deliberately or inadvertently - and will persist, in the absence of drastic changes in policy. "Politics and the Ghettos" searches out the...

Les B. Whitbeck and Dan R. Hoyt begin their report on street children in the Midwest with the statement, "If you live in or have visited even a medium-sized city recently, you have seen runaway and homeless young people. They congregate in certain...

Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community investigates the behavior and attitudes of 709 mothers towards their year-old babies. John and Elizabeth Newson, impatient with the voluminous and contradictory literature telling parents how their...

To validate the revolutionary legislation of the New Deal, Franklin Roosevelt had to fight a ferocious battle against the opposition of the Supreme Court. Benefits like Social Security may now be seen as every American's birthright, but it took a...

This book consists of papers that present the findings of research done by the SMERU Research Institute in Jakarta, Indonesia. Most describe the effects on the poor of the Indonesian economic crisis of 1997-98 and the response of the Indonesian...

Nuestro hogar ya nunca será el mismo se centra principalmente en los años cincuenta, sesenta y setenta. Larry Ray, su legado, su duro trabajo, su vida sencilla y su pobre familia luchadora, sus vínculos con la naturaleza y Dios - todos son objetivos del...

Swimming to the Horizon is a look at the bottom rungs of the community mental health system, where clinicians with little experience or training often work with patients holding together lives burdened by drug addiction, severe psychosis, poverty, and...

The incredible journey of a German immigrant, who came from the corporate world of business lunches and suit-and-tie dress code, to experiencing 9/11 shortly after arrival in his new home country. Then destiny flung him to the far southwestern corner of...

Contributing authors tell their stories about growing up in the Foster Care system and working with Foster Children.

Today, residents of the Borough of Queens are fortunate enough to be protected by the New York City Police Department – but that wasn't always the case. There was a time when Queens County was not a part of New York City, and the towns and villages...

The Long Island Railroad is the busiest commuter railroad in the United States, and the oldest railroad still operating under its original name. The railroad operates seven days a week with service and branches from Manhattan in New York City to Montauk...

"The Evolution of Modern Terrorist Organizations" offers an incisive examination of the growth and transformation of terrorist groups within the framework of religious extremism. From the fringes of political dissent to the global stage, this...