A critical engagement with the state of social policy a decade after Scotland s devolution in the UK, this book focuses on the successive Scottish administration s key vision of greater social justice as it pertains to the analysis of its social policy. Arguing that such analysis must be located in wider debates about social justice, it shows how the devolution process has affected the making, implementation, and impact of Scotland s social programs. Looking at a range of topics, including income inequality, work and welfare, criminal justice, housing, education, and health, the contributors...

A critical engagement with the state of social policy a decade after Scotland s devolution in the UK, this book focuses on the successive Scottish administration s key vision of greater social justice as it pertains to the analysis of its social policy. Arguing that such analysis must be located in wider debates about social justice, it shows how the devolution process has affected the making, implementation, and impact of Scotland s social programs. Looking at a range of topics, including income inequality, work and welfare, criminal justice, housing, education, and health, the contributors...

Provides a discussion of work and workers in the UK welfare sector under New Labour. This book examines the changing nature of work and explores the context of industrial relations across the welfare industry.

Crime, Justice and Society in Scotland is an edited collection of chapters from leading experts that builds and expands upon the success of the 2010 publication Criminal Justice in Scotland to offer a comprehensive and critical overview of Scottish criminal justice and its relation to wider social inequalities and social justice. This new volume considers criminal justice in the context of the Scottish politics and the recent referendum on independence and it includes a discussion of the complex relationships between criminal justice and devolution, nationalism and nation building....