'The book embodies a timely collection of restorative justice topics and is well structured with some of the most learned authorities in the field' - Magistrate
'The team which teaches the Open University's Crime Order and Social Control course has long been publishing teaching materials which are gratefully purloined by colleagues elsewhere for use in their own courses. In producing this book they have gone much further than this: not only have they selected an indispensable range of mainly previously published readings, they have also placed them in a...
'The book embodies a timely collection of restorative justice topics and is well structured with some of the most learned authorities in the field'
'The book embodies a timely collection of restorative justice topics and is well structured with some of the most learned authorities in the field' - Magistrate
'The team which teaches the Open University's Crime Order and Social Control course has long been publishing teaching materials which are gratefully purloined by colleagues elsewhere for use in their own courses. In producing this book they have gone much further than this: not only have they selected an indispensable range of mainly previously published readings, they have also placed them in a...
'The book embodies a timely collection of restorative justice topics and is well structured with some of the most learned authorities in the field'
Political, popular and academic debates have swirled around the notion of citizen as a consumer of public services, with public service reform increasingly geared towards a consumer society. This innovative book draws on original research with those people in the front-line of the reforms -staff, managers and users of public services - to explore their responses to this turn to consumerism. Focusing on health, policing and social care, it vividly brings to life the contentious and troubled relationships between government, services and users.
Creating Citizen Consumers...
Political, popular and academic debates have swirled around the notion of citizen as a consumer of public services, with public service reform increas...
An innovative study of the real world of street policing and the gender issues which are a central part of this. Derived from extensive ethnographic research (involving police responses to gangland shootings, high speed car chases as well as more routine policing activities), this book examines the way police attitudes and beliefs combine to perpetuate a working culture which is dependent upon traditional conceptions of male and female. In doing so it challenges previously held assumptions about the way women are harassed, manipulated and constrained, focusing rather on the more subtle impact...
An innovative study of the real world of street policing and the gender issues which are a central part of this. Derived from extensive ethnographic r...
