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Please see details of all new Policy Press titles below.
With so much about immigration in the news, we currently have a special
offer on our immigration titles, giving an opportunity to gain a real
understanding about the issues involved. See our special offers page for a
complete list of the titles featured:
https://www.policypress.org.uk/page.php?name=specialoffers
New titles for November
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'Communities, identities & crime'
Basia Spalek provides a critical exploration of the importance of social
identities when considering crime, victimisation and criminal justice.
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10202&products_id=1127
'Negotiating death in contemporary health and social care'
Margaret Holloway brings together perspectives from social science,
health-care and pastoral theology, looking at the way death is handled in
contemporary society and the sensitive ethical and practical dilemmas faced.
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10225&products_id=986
'Gender and the politics of time'
Valerie Bryson's wide-ranging and accessible book looks at how women's
increased role in the labour market has combined with concerns about the
damaging effects of long working hours to push time-related issues up the
policy agenda in many Western nations.
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10086&products_id=1068
'The National Evaluation of Sure Start'
This book, edited by Jay Belsky, Jacqueline Barnes and Edward Melhuish,
pulls together, in a single volume, the results of the extensive National
Evaluation of Sure Start (NESS).
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1339
'Policy reconsidered'
This book, edited by Susan M. Hodgson and Zoë Irving, identifies key topics
within the policy arena and subjects them to sustained theoretical and
practical appraisal.
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1276
'Poverty, policy and the state'
New Zealand has experienced both sweeping economic and social reform and
growing poverty and income inequality in the last twenty years. Mike
O'Brien, explores the changes to social security provision and coverage in
the context of these developments.
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10043&products_id=1129
City survivors
Anne Power provides a unique insider view on the impact of neighbourhood
conditions on family life and explores the prospects for families from the
point of view of equality, integration, schools, work, community,
regeneration and public services.
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=1413
This month we are also publishing two new reports in our Researching
Criminal Justice Series:
'Assessing the use and impact of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders', by Roger
Matthews, Helen Easton, Daniel Briggs and Ken Pease OBE, provides one of
the first assessments of the widely used but extremely controversial ASBOs.
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10202&products_id=1441
'Zero tolerance policing', by Maurice Punch, examines the key issues of
what policing is about and who defines it by exploring the notion of zero
tolerance and its application in different settings.
https://www.policypress.org.uk/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=10202&products_id=1479
New issue of Evidence & Policy
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November sees the publication of a new issue of Evidence & Policy (Volume
3, Number 4). Please visit our website journals page for information and to
sign up for a free trial on any of our journals, giving you the chance to
'try before you buy':
https://www.policypress.org.uk/journals/
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