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    After urban regeneration
    Radical social work today
    A companion to the history of crime and criminal justice
    Commissioning Healthcare in England
    Poverty and social exclusion in the UK
    Why the left loses
    • Bringing together a range of leading academics and experts on social democratic politics and policy, Why the Left Loses offers an international, comparative view of the changing political landscape, examining the degree to which the centre-left project is exhausted and is able to renew its message in a neo-liberal age.

      Why the left loses
    • This text provides insights into the nature and extent of poverty and social exclusion in the UK today for different social groups: older and younger people; parents and children; ethnic groups; men and women; disabled people; and across regions through the recent period of austerity.

      Poverty and social exclusion in the UK
    • This timely book is the most comprehensive account yet of recent commissioning practice in the English NHS and its impact on health services and the healthcare system.

      Commissioning Healthcare in England
    • Offering a succinct approach to the vocabulary and terminology of historical and contemporary approaches to crime and punishment, it includes concise but robust definitions of key terms and concepts from expert contributors in a user-friendly A-Z format with clear direction to related entries and further reading.

      A companion to the history of crime and criminal justice
    • To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the seminal text Radical Social Work (1975), this volume has been compiled to explore the radical tradition within social work and assess its legacy, relevance and prospects. It is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduates studying social work, as well as social work academics and researchers.

      Radical social work today
    • After urban regeneration

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      Focusing on the history and theory of community in urban policy, and including a unique set of case studies that draw on artistic and cultural community work, After urban regeneration engages with debates on how urban policy has changed and continues to change following the financial crash of 2008

      After urban regeneration
    • Women and criminal justice

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      This book focuses on developments since the publication of the 2007 Corston Report into women and criminal justice. The challenges of working with women in the current climate also explored, translating lessons from good practice to policy development and recommending future directions arising from the `Transforming Rehabilitation' plans.

      Women and criminal justice
    • Ethics

      • 76 pages
      • 3 hours of reading

      Sarah Banks emphasises the importance of reclaiming professional ethics for social work, and outlines a preliminary framework for a situated ethics of social justice.

      Ethics
    • In examining how our identity shapes the knowledge we produce, Mental health service users in research considers ways of 'doing research' which bring multiple understandings together effectively, and explains the sociological use of autobiography and its relevance.

      Mental health service users in research
    • Social policy review 27

      • 304 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      This exciting volume brings together international scholarship to address a broad range of issues including the effects of financialisation on services and care provision, policies to address deficiencies in housing and labour markets and ways in which the study of social policy may need to develop.

      Social policy review 27