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Within the domains of criminal justice and mental health care, critical debate concerning care versus control and therapy versus security is now co...

To reduce emissions and address climate change, we need to invest in renewables and rapidly decarbonise our energy networks. However, decarbonisati...

For vulnerable older, disabled or homeless people who need accommodation and support, many different forms of housing have developed whether hoste...

For vulnerable older, disabled or homeless people who need accommodation and support, many different forms of housing have developed whether hoste...

Chapters 1, 3 and 5 are available Open Access under CC-BY licence. Safeguarding adults at risk of abuse or neglect is a core area of social work pr...

Population ageing and globalisation represent two of the most radical social transformations that have occurred. This book provides, for the first ...

This is the first book to address the issue of ageing after a long life with disability. It breaks new ground through its particular life course pe...

Sixty years ago, an upsurge of social movements protested the ecological harms of industrial capitalism. In subsequent decades, environmentalism co...

In complex contemporary societies social science has become increasingly interwoven into the whole fabric of governance. At the same time there is ...

At Home with Autism: Designing Housing for the Spectrum introduces readers to conditions and aspirations of adults on the autism spectrum that dema...

Voted one of the Guardian best books of 2014 by Owen Jones. After coming to power in May 2010, the Coalition government in the United Kingdom embar...

What's gone wrong with capitalism and how should governments respond? What does the future hold for the Left in the UK in the face of the austerity...