Recent government legislation requires local authorities to provide secure accommodation for unin...

A comprehensive and accessible guide to the key themes, issues and debates in global social polic...

Improving health in populations in which health is poor is a complex process. This book argues th...

What has been done to achieve fairer and more efficient education systems, and what more can be d...

Exploring various aspects of social work from an anthropological perspective, this original book ...

What kind of community is demanded by a problem like dementia?As aspects of care continue to tr...

With capitalism in crisis - rising inequality, unsustainable resource depletion and climate chang...

As contemporary policing becomes ever more complex, so knowledge of practical psychology becomes ...

As local communities and public services reel under the impact of global economic turmoil, it is ...

While the notion of social harm has long interested critical criminologists it is now being explo...