Public Management and Vulnerability: Contextualising Change

ISBN-13: 9780367537081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 258 str.

Opis

The book locates the issue of ‘vulnerability’ into an international context and goes beyond existing concepts of policing and vulnerability to include multi and intra-agency working, while showing how a variety of agencies in different jurisdictions prioritise and operationalise this escalating 21st Century social problem.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Contested Perspectives on Vulnerability: Which Groups Are Vulnerable and Why?  2. Beyond Public Services: The Era of New Public Populism  3. The Impact of Brexit on Vulnerability: Using a Theoretical Lens of Transnational and Local Linkages  4. Vulnerability A Collective or Individual/Agency Issue? Has Vulnerability Replaced Community Safety in the UK and Are We Stigmatising the Individual?  5. Responding to Vulnerability in Practice- Ambulance, Police and Fire and Rescue Services  6. Professional Vulnerability in the UK Public Sector: The Social Work Operational Environment  7. Virtually Vulnerable: Why Digital Technology Challenges the Fundamental Concepts of Vulnerability and Risk  8. Relational Pressure and Policing Vulnerable Populations in China  9. UK Immigration Policy: Asylum Seeker and Refugee Vulnerability  10. Responding to Ageing Demographics: A Positive View From a Public Administration and Public Policy Perspective  11. The Important Voices of Care Experienced People in Relation to Services  12. Lesson Drawing for Theory, Policy and Practice: Developing a Future Research Agenda