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Behavioural Control Orders
An original study of the UK's preventive hybrid orders, revealing how civil powers with criminal consequences target people as much as behaviour. A timely critique of how these powers disproportionately affect groups already subject to social disadvantage and intensive policing.
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Sociology for Social Care in Ireland
This textbook shows why sociological enquiry is essential to understanding social care. It explores the socio-historical factors that have shaped the development of social care as a profession and, crucially, highlights the complexity of service users’ everyday lives. Drawing on both classical a...
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Youth, Transitions and Social Justice
This book considers young people’s conceptions and experiences of social justice through key transitions in their lives. It examines the factors shaping and constraining young people’s actions for a fairer society in a time when real world and virtual social spaces have become fragmented. Consi...
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Border Criminology
This book offers a clear and authoritative guide to the growing field of border criminology. As governments worldwide tighten their grips on migration, it shows how police and prisons are adapting to changes in detention and deportation practices. The book examines overlapping criminal and admini...
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Revisiting Contemporary Childhoods
What does it mean to put children's voices at the centre and truly recognise their capacity for change? Through rich, interdisciplinary research spanning Australia, Poland, Spain, Slovakia, India and the UK, this book illuminates how children actively negotiate, resist and reshape the structures ...
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Doxxed
What happens when your personal information is weaponized against you online? This groundbreaking book offers a novel examination of doxxing—the malicious sharing of private, identifiable and sensitive information—through a feminist and post-humanist lens. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 18 v...
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The Social Politics of Constitutional Amendment in Ireland
This book argues that referendums are not only acts of decision or legislation, but also exercises in social integration through which identities are formed, reshaped and expressed. In the years following the global economic crisis and its 2010 ‘bailout’, Ireland held a series of seven referendu...
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AI in Justice Systems
This book offers a clear and engaging account of how AI is reshaping justice systems around the world and why this matters for society. Examining predictive and surveillance technologies used in the UK and US alongside deployments in ten Sub-Saharan African countries, it moves beyond Western–cent...
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Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Why do some people experience inclusion and opportunity while others face exclusion and disadvantage? Sociological perspectives on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) help us answer this question by examining how power, identity and social structures shape experiences in work and public life....
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Transnational Marriage Abandonment
This book examines transnational marriage abandonment as gendered violence, drawing on India–UK research to reveal how legal gaps and migration regimes leave women without rights, and outlining policy and legal responses.
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Migration and Mobile Rights
Migrant activism is key in today’s world, where countries in the Global North employ border regimes to reinforce racial hierarchies, limit freedom of movement, and exploit migrant labour. But how do migrant-led movements engage with human rights - do they see them as limited tools, or as framewor...
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Interpreting Protest and Social Movements
Theories of protest and social movements have long incorporated culture, yet many of its central questions about meaning, interpretation and emotion remain underexplored. How do movements define grievances, identify victims and villains and communicate their cause to wider publics? And how do the...
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Political Hatred and Political Order
Accounts of political order typically treat hatred as a consequence of instability, not as a source of it. Yet political hatred can arise independently of the merits of an order, weakening the norms and institutions that stabilise it. By explaining how this occurs, this book develops an account o...
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Soft City Sensing
This book presents a human-centred approach to data-driven urbanism, with case studies illustrating the integration of public values and everyday urban life into planning and policy making.
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Tolerance and Symbolic Borders
How do British-Turks understand Britishness, and what does this mean for belonging in education, safeguarding in policies and equality in everyday life? This book shows Britishness is understood differently across generations: young British-Turks see it as innate to their identity, while adults ...
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Death in Migration
What happens when death becomes part of the journey of international migrants? This book examines how mortality is woven into the experience of displacement and migration. From perilous border crossings to the business of repatriation and contested burial grounds, it reveals the hidden geographie...
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Lived Experience in Action
As interest grows in more collaborative and inclusive approaches in criminal justice, the insights of those with lived experience are gaining increasing attention. This collection examines what it means to bring those voices into research, policy making and service delivery—not only highlighting ...
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Civil Society Activism and Animal Welfare Rights
Despite increasing legal recognition of animal rights, policy making remains inconsistent, and civil society’s role in shaping governance is underexplored. Civil Society Activism and Animal Welfare Rights offers new empirical and theoretical insights into how advocacy groups influence animal welf...
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Policing Race and Nightlife
This book exposes how policing and licensing practices shape UK nightlife as a racialized space, with harmful consequences for Black and Gypsy and Traveller communities. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with key nightlife stakeholders, it reveals how governance structures – from poli...
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Mode of Production and the Historiography of Capitalism
Bringing together leading scholars and activists, this edited collection calls for a return to the ‘mode of production debate’ to address often-overlooked dimensions: gender, race, and Eurocentrism. The concept of mode of production is placed in dialogue with Marxist debates on domestic labour, r...
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Cooperative Research
How can social researchers move beyond studying communities to working alongside them as equal partners? This edited collection draws on feminist, participatory and decolonial traditions to reimagine social research as something done with people, not just on them.
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Relational Ethics for Social Work
Offering a clear, philosophically and theoretically grounded ethical framework, this book demonstrates what relational ethics can bring to everyday social work and social care – particularly in contexts where practitioners, families and communities are all under pressure, and where neoliberal pol...
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Decriminalisation
Decriminalisation is often framed as a ‘third way solution’ between legality and criminalisation, but the complex regulatory field that surrounds it is rarely examined. This edited collection marks a departure from current approaches by focusing on the consequences of decriminalisation, rather t...
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Disability, Accessibility and Mobility Justice
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores the accessibility and inclusiveness of pedestrian environments and interactions, and the effectiveness of law purporting to address inequality in this context. Its thought-provoking analysis is based on extensive interv...
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Sex Work, Stigma, and the Law
Stigma is a harm that shapes many sex workers’ experiences worldwide, with a considerable number living double lives because of it. This book breaks down what this stigma looks like, the harms resulting from it, and the role that laws play in it. Drawing on over a decade of research, and intervie...
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The Army-State and Spatial Politics in Burma
This book paints a clear picture of Burmese political and social dynamics between 1948–2024 that is not distorted by seeing Burma as simply another case of western-inspired democratization or its failure. The book makes the argument that instead of focusing exclusively on the faults of Burma’s a...
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Inherited Time
This book offers a fresh perspective on work showing how past events, ideas, practices and values haunt organizations. In a contemporary context where organizations are ever more obsessed with growth and transformation, the book discovers a politics of time at the heart of questions about power a...
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Microbial Governance
What can the tiniest of microbes reveal about the nature of global governance? In a first-of-its-kind exploration, this book traces the journey of one such microbe through the web of global governance surrounding what is commonly recognized as one of the biggest threats to global health security:...
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The Debt Cycle
This book exposes how, in our increasingly fintech-dominated societies, money quietly governs our everyday lives. Exploring digital payments, cashless systems and the growing reach of financial surveillance, it reveals a new form of power rooted in the risks, obligations and visibilities attached...
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Cities Against Democratic Backsliding
As nationalist and populist movements gain traction worldwide, democracy faces growing threats. In many cases, large cities have emerged as strongholds of progressive and democratic values, pushing back against authoritarian pressures. This timely book explores the evolving power struggle betwee...
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Affect, Emotion, and Feeling in Science Communication
The hardest problems facing science communication today are emotional ones. Conspiracy theories, vaccine hesitancy and technology hype resist conventional engagement approaches because they are driven by powerful feelings of anxiety, mistrust, grief and desire. Drawing on psychoanalysis, science ...
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Resexualising Later Life
Building on the work of the previous volumes in the Sex and Intimacy in Later Life series, this book explores how resexualisation may take place in later life. Drawing on transdisciplinary and international content, it provides a theoretically and experientially informed overview and discussion ...
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How Diversity Became White
This book examines the paradoxical outcomes of diversity policies in Europe, focusing on France. Based on longitudinal interview data, it shows how diversity frameworks have shifted over time and can reproduce rather than challenge white normativity.
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Organizing In-visibility
Few would argue that women and girls are well represented in STEM education and careers. But does presenting STEM as a glittery occupation represented by scientist Barbies make the field more attractive? This book explores how glitter shapes the way women and girls are encouraged into STEM and in...
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Green Technology and Social Injustice
Solutions to the climate crisis tend to fall into two categories: the hope that humanity will change how it operates in time to offset the worst of the damage, and the hope that technology will pull us back from the brink without the need for major structural or societal reform. This book argues ...
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Nation and Identity in the Gulf
This book offers a compelling examination of women's role in the construction of national identity in the Gulf, with a focus on Qatar. It both interrogates and engages with global frameworks of nationalism and nation-building through the concept of the 'ideal woman,' set against the complex, dive...
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Radical Municipalism
Radical Municipalism offers a fresh perspective on the democratizing capacity of the politics of the common in the transformation of public services, aiming to foster social change at the local level and beyond. Building on a strong theoretical foundation and featuring 14 original case studies fr...
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What Are Statues For?
Who merits being commemorated in stone and why? Many statues are fundamentally linked to the most shameful eras of humanity: empire-building, the slave trade and exploitation. Challenging and debating the worth and place of statues in our contemporary world, this book includes some of the most co...
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Urban Communities and Climate Justice
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores how arts practice research can shape place-based approaches to climate justice and action. Through a rich case study of ex-industrial working-class neighbourhoods in Manchester, UK, it examines how experiences of povert...
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Reducing Political Violence
This groundbreaking book reveals how complex stories—ranging from war memoirs and political polemics to propaganda and prize-winning fiction—can shape our understanding of ideologically motivated violence. Drawing on the rich tradition of aesthetic education, it offers an original theory connecti...
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Crime, Harm and the State
Why are some harms defined as crimes while others are not? This pioneering collection disrupts the boundaries of criminology, offering a bold, innovative exploration of crime, state power and social harm across historical and global contexts. Bridging zemiology, governmentality studies, and deco...
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Psychoanalysis and Human Resource Management
Since the 1980s, Human Resource Management (HRM) has risen to prominence as a highly influential area of practice and scholarship, yet critical examinations remain rare. This book applies psychoanalytic ideas to challenge HRM’s core theories and practices, exposing the dark side of organizational...
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Labour, Climate Policies and Just Transitions
Climate change mitigation policies will transform industries, labour markets and societies worldwide, but who will stand to gain and who will lose? This book examines how unions and other global actors navigate tensions between advancing climate action and protecting workers’ interests. Identifyi...
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Breaking Barriers
How can women empower each other to thrive and lead in male-dominated STEM industries? Drawing on the journey of alta, a global, award-winning mentoring platform for the aviation and aerospace sector, this book demonstrates how relational mentoring empowers women, dismantles structural barriers, ...
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Democracy in the UK after Brexit
This book examines the status of UK representative democracy post-Brexit, questioning whether the slogan 'taking back control' effectively restored UK popular sovereignty. It develops a model of the three modes of democracy in play – parliamentary, party and constitutional – to present an origin...
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Broken Records
This timely book examines the lasting impact of criminal records and punishment in Canada, focusing on the barriers that prevent criminalized people from moving forward in their lives. It explores the flawed reliance on criminal records to predict risk and the social exclusion this creates, parti...
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Just Bureaucracy
Every year, millions of people claim Universal Credit and disability benefits, but far fewer feel justly treated. Just Bureaucracy asks why, and what can be done about it. Drawing on empirical research with thousands of welfare claimants, it reveals what justice actually means to the people who ...
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Crafting Shared Practices of Hope
Drawing on a decade of participatory craft research and practice in sensitive settings, Crafting Shared Practices of Hope shows how collaborative processes can create spaces that are safe and welcoming for those most marginalised, while also working towards the wider system changes needed to tack...
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Community-University Engagement and Praxis
Universities have challenging times ahead: the demands of a global student, new technology, employers wanting work-ready graduates and shifting ideologies that influence who holds and creates knowledge. The role of a university as a civic institution becomes increasingly contested. How can and sh...
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Social Harm and Neoliberalism
This book links criminological, political, moral, and philosophical issues to offer a deeper understanding of the problem of social harm within the neoliberal environment. Illustrated through case studies, John Gregson shows that social harms are a problem created not only by politics or economi...
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Cross-Examination on Trial
Amid growing public concern about the negative effect cross-examination has on vulnerable witnesses, this book examines the effect of recent reforms to the practice across the different jurisdictions of the UK and Ireland. Drawing on observations and transcripts of trials and interviews with jud...
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How Technologies Harm
Technologies contribute to harms in a variety of ways, but can we ever say they are harmful in-and-of-themselves? This book offers a new way to understand how technologies, while not intrinsically harmful, are laden with values and dispositions that can contribute to negative outcomes. Building o...
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Navigating Contemporary Fatherhood in Europe
Drawing on extensive empirical research, this book examines paternal involvement in caregiving practices and asks what is currently happening to ‘involved’ fatherhood? The book investigates fatherhood in various everyday settings, such as outdoor spaces, workplaces and the home, while considerin...
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Worlding Biodata
This book offers a new conceptual framework for understanding biodata across different temporalities and global contexts. Moving beyond data as mere information, the authors explore how biodata reshapes human lives, scientific practice and global struggles for justice. Bridging anthropology, inf...
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Platforms, Sex, Work
How is online sex work being reshaped by the rise of platform labour and the gig economy? In this book, Helen Rand examines the legal, economic, cultural and technological forces shaping online sex markets and the lived experiences of those working within them. Drawing on qualitative interviews ...
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Peter Townsend
This book tells the story of Peter Townsend’s life and work. It shines a light on a country transformed by the welfare state, decolonisation and deindustrialisation, the expansion of higher education and neoliberalism.
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This but Not That
Digital technologies have transformed the way we live, work and connect. But have they fundamentally changed society? In this provocative new book, leading social theorist Theodore R. Schatzki challenges assumptions underlying claims that digitalization is revolutionizing society, arguing that s...
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Bodies of Resistance
Drawing on seven years of field research in the sex industry, this book explores the transformative potential of entrepreneurship. The authors take readers into the worlds of feminist pornography, modern burlesque, escort collectives, erotic domination, and non-profit support organizations to sha...
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Visual Scribing for Qualitative Inquiry
Visual scribing – combining pictures, diagrams and text to synthesise ideas in real time – offers qualitative researchers a powerful tool for participant engagement, collective memory and trust building. Drawing on real-world case studies, this groundbreaking textbook guides readers from first pr...
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Unsettling Migration Studies
As migration studies are increasingly challenged to confront the inequalities embedded in knowledge production, feminist, intersectional and post/decolonial perspectives offer new ways of researching and teaching migration. Bringing together contributors from sociology, political science, geogra...
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Safeguarding Mental Health Service Users Online
This unique guide equips practitioners with an understanding of e-safety and online risks for mental health service users. Drawing on research, theory and practice examples, it will enable them to critically evaluate safeguarding issues and develop practical and effective online safeguarding plan...
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World Report 2014
Human Rights Watch’s World Report 2014 is the global rights watchdog’s flagship 24th annual review of global trends and news in human rights. An invaluable resource for journalists, diplomats, and citizens, it features not only incisive country surveys but also hard-hitting essays highlighting k...
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Feeding Hungry Families
Across England, families are struggling with the cost of food, with some children arriving at school hungry. Entrenched poverty, low and insecure incomes, gaps in the welfare system and the cost-of-living crisis have made it even harder in recent years for families to get the food they need. As a...
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The Nature Delusion
"A pathbreaking synthesis" Gus Speth "Rigorous and compelling" Michael Foley Why our current fixes for the environmental crisis are making things worse, and what we need to do about it. Does the future of humankind lie in colonising a new planet, or uploading our minds to a digital metaverse? Li...
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What Is Music For?
Why do we have music? Why do we love music, and have such a deep, human need for it? It is just vibrating air, yet it is at the heart of so many of our rituals; weddings, funerals, parties and all kinds of gatherings. Fleur Bouwer is both a musician and a cognitive neuroscientist, and in this fas...
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Qualitative Fieldwork with Children
Drawing on the multinational qualitative study ‘Children’s Understandings of Well-being’ (CUWB), this unique edited collection offers practical insights into conducting fieldwork across diverse geographical, social and cultural contexts, using the same basic protocol. The book explores the practi...
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Outdoor-Based Dementia Support and Care
Can the outdoors transform lives of people with dementia? This timely collection explores how nature-based activities — from social farming to walking, travel and creative practices— can support wellbeing, connection and quality of life. Bringing together international research, practice example...
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Ageing and Technoscience
How do we age the way we do? Drawing on Science and Technology Studies, age studies and feminist posthumanism, this book challenges the idea that ageing is merely a biological fact and problematizes dominant socio-technical imaginaries of ageing. It explores how ageing is socially, materially an...
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What Are the Police For?
As an institution, our police force is under increasing strain and frequently faces criticism. Yes it is hard to imagine what could conceivably replace it? Police and policing are always contested. For some, police deserve unquestioning support as a bulwark against crime; for others, abolition as...
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Making War Safe for Capitalism
This book examines the impact of World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) economic restructuring programmes during active conflicts. Using a critical political economy perspective, the book explores how these restructuring efforts affect vulnerable communities’ survival amid violence. Ch...
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The Idea of Academic Responsibility
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Academic freedom is widely recognized as a cornerstone of higher education, yet its counterpart, academic responsibility, has received remarkably little attention. This timely book addresses that gap by presenting academic responsibility...
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Young Parents, Housing and Home
Young parenthood cannot be understood without attention to housing. Where young parents live, and the support available to them, shapes how care is organised, relationships are sustained and homes are made. And yet, young parenthood is too often viewed through a lens of deficit, obscuring how par...
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The Alumni Way (second edition)
Was your degree truly worth it? How can you build your network to maximise the value of your time at university? Does the alumni strategy in your organisation need an inspired boost? This second edition of The Alumni Way reimagines your alumni status as a lifelong gateway to opportunity. Drawi...
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Social Work Professional Organizations
Despite their long history and growing influence, social work professional organisations (SWPOs) remain underexplored in social work research. Created and fully or partly governed by professionals for professionals, SWPOs comprise millions of practitioners worldwide – some groups having existed f...
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The No-Fly Zone in Us Foreign Policy
The no-fly zone is a frequently used instrument in the US foreign policy arsenal, despite detrimental, or even catastrophic, results. This book examines why the instrument has such a hold on leaders’ imaginations and rhetoric despite its patchy record in practice. Examining detailed historical c...
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Policing in Crisis?
Are the recent scandals around UK policing the product of a temporary crisis or rather inscribed deep in the police institution? This timely book presents a critical perspective on key areas of current controversy: policing and communities; policing and protest; and policing and gender. Bringing ...
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Ageing in Contemporary China
How does rapid urbanisation reshape the experience of ageing, and who is left behind? This book provides one of the first systematic sociological analyses of stratified ageing and later-life inequality in contemporary China since the 1940s. Adopting an intersectional life-course perspective and ...
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Everyday Qualitative Analysis
The richest insights in qualitative projects often emerge not from established or formulaic analytic approaches but from everyday, improvised ways of working with data. Everyday Qualitative Analysis reveals these often-unseen creative practices, showing how researchers think, feel and make meanin...
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Policy Successes in Central Asia and Caucasus
Mainstream academic literature, international reports and media coverage have long portrayed the post-Soviet governments as corrupt, ineffective and unaccountable. However, this unyielding narrative obscures a more complex and diverse reality. Drawing on policy success frameworks, this edited co...
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Transpacific Mirrors
How have Chinese thinkers viewed American democracy and federalism across more than a century of turbulent change? This book offers a fascinating exploration of Chinese perceptions of the US political system from the late Qing dynasty to the aftermath of Tiananmen and the rise of China as a globa...
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Climate Harms and Criminal Justice
Climate change is reshaping every part of society — and criminal justice is no exception. This groundbreaking book examines how the climate crisis is transforming policing, courts, corrections and communities, from disaster responses and harm prevention to criminalisation of protest and prison de...
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Labour Law and the Gender of Work
Care work is essential. And yet, Western capitalist societies are organised in a way as to neglect care work and make it invisible. Building on feminist critiques of labour law, this book analyses how private care work has been socially constituted as the Other in relation to work on labour mark...
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Creating Safer Space
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This edited book offers original insights into communities’ nonviolent strategies to keep themselves and others safe amidst armed violence. Drawing on a unique breadth of original research across eleven countries in Africa, Latin America...
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The Cost of Othering
Othering in the workplace - where employees seen as ‘different’ are pushed to one side despite relevant skills and knowledge - carries a high cost for both the individuals involved and the organisations that hire them. Drawing on the insights of a diverse range of contributors, this book unpick...
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Every Student Has Their Price
Over the past four decades, English higher education has been fundamentally remade – from a heavily subsidised public good into a competitive neo-market driven by full-cost tuition fees, uncapped student numbers and new commercial providers. What are the consequences of treating university educat...
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Challenging Prosecutorial Discretion
This book offers the first comprehensive evaluation of the three key mechanisms through which victims can challenge decisions not to prosecute: the Crown Prosecution Service Victims’ Right to Review (VRR), judicial review and private prosecutions. Assessing each route against criteria of accessib...
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Protecting Children under the Online Safety Act
As children and teenagers spend more time immersed in digital spaces, their exposure to online harms has intensified. Policy makers present the Online Safety Act 2023 (OSA) as a landmark response; yet its effectiveness in protecting under-18s remains uncertain. This book traces the way that enga...
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Between Friends
Community twinning gained traction after World War II as national governments in Europe sought to promote goodwill and cooperation among communities torn apart by conflict. In recent decades, twinning has become an increasingly global practice, extending beyond Europe, municipal relations and pea...
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