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9780631220305

Understanding Social Problems Issues in Social Policy

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    9780631220305

  • ISBN10:

    0631220305

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-03-05
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This up-to-date and accessible text fills an important gap in the market by introducing students to social policy perspectives on social problems.

Author Biography

Margaret May is one of the editors of The Student's Companion to Social Policy (1997) and of the forthcoming Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy (2001).

Edward Brunsdon's publications include contributing to and editing The Social Policy Review (1996-1998) and studies of private welfare (in R Page & S Silburn (eds) British Social Welfare in the Twentieth Century (1999) and welfare management (in S Horton & R Farnham (eds.) Public Management in Britain (1999).

Edward Brunsdon and Margaret May are Principal Lecturers in Social Policy in the Department of Sociology and Applied Social Studies at London Guildhall University.

Robert Page is currently a Reader in Social Policy at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Stigma (1984) and Altruism and the Welfare State (1996). He is the co-editor (with Vic George) of Modern Thinkers on Welfare (1995) and (with Richard Silburn) of British Social Welfare in the 20th Century (1999).

Table of Contents

List of Figures
vii
List of Tables
viii
About the Contributors ix
Guide to the Book xiv
Social Problems in Social Policy: An Introduction
xvi
Margaret May
Robert Page
Edward Brunsdon
Part One Studying Social Problems 1(30)
Social Problems: Sociological Perspectives
3(13)
John Clarke
The Exploration of Social Problems in the Field of Social Policy
16(15)
Robert Page
Part Two Social Policy, Social Problems 31(200)
The Family
35(2)
Family Change and Lone Parents as a Social Problem
37(18)
Jane Lewis
Caring and Dependency: Age and Disability
55(15)
John Baldock
Domestic Violence
70(17)
Lorraine Radford
Poverty and Social Exclusion
85(2)
The Changing Face of Poverty
87(20)
David Donnison
Child Poverty and the Policy Response
107(11)
Karen Rowlingson
Homelessness
118(12)
Mark Liddiard
Income and Wealth
130(19)
Paul Spicker
Health
147(2)
Health Inequalities
149(14)
Helen Jones
Mental Disorder
163(12)
Pauline Prior
Problematic Identities and Health
175(12)
David Kelleher
Community Problems
185(2)
The Problematic Community
187(18)
Susanne MacGregor
Safe and Sound? Crime, Disorder and Community Safety Policies
205(13)
Dee Cook
Drugs and Drug Misuse
218(13)
Arthur Gould
Part Three Reporting Social Problems 231(48)
Press-Ganged! Media Reporting of Social Work and Child Abuse
233(15)
Bob Franklin
Nigel Parton
Defrauding the Community? The Abuse of Welfare
248(15)
Hartley Dean
Ways of Seeing: The News Media and Racist Violence
263(16)
Eugene McLaughlin
Karim Murji
Part Four Consumer Protection in Social Policy 279(31)
Protecting the `Vulnerable': Welfare and Consumer Protection
281(15)
Margaret May
Food and the Environment
296(14)
Meg Huby
Index 310

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