Living in Dangerous Times

Fear, Insecurity, Risk and Social Policy
Herausgegeben von Denney, David

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through a series of essays by leading social public policy experts, Living in Dangerous Times analyzes the impact of fear on the development of social policy in the UK in the post 9-11 - and 7/11 - world.

Incorporates an approach that pushes back traditional views of what the study of social policy should be about

Features essays by leading scholars that combine original theories with empirical data

Analyzes the complexities of policy development and governance in a world suffused with fear and uncertainty

Addresses critical contemporary questions for policy makers and policy analysts

Produktdetails

• Broadening Perspectives in Social Policy
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781405191760
• ISBN-10: 1405191767
• Artikelnr.: 27837069

Autorenporträt

David Denney is Professor of Social and Public Policy, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Editorial Introduction: Living in Dangerous Times - Fear, Insecurity, Risk
and Social Policy: David Denney 1. Fear, Human Rights and New Labour Policy
Post-9/11: David Denney 2. Does Difference Make a Difference in Financial
Planning for Risk?: Deborah Quilgars, Anwen Jones and David Abbott 3. The
Great Cut: The Support for Private Modes of Social Evasion by Public
Policy: Rowland Atkinson 4. Risk and Public Protection: Responding to
Involuntary and 'Taboo' Risk: Hazel Kemshall and Jason Wood 5. Social
Policy beyond Fear: The Globalization of Strangeness, the 'War on Terror',
and 'Spaces of Wonder': Chris Rumford 6. Fear and Security: A
Vulnerability-led Policy Response: Frank Furedi 7. Child Protection Social
Work: Risks of Fears and Fears of Risks - Impossible Tasks from Impossible
Goals?: Brian Littlechild 8. Fear of Others: Social Exclusion and the
European Crisis of Solidarity: Gerard Delanty 9. 'We Don't Have to Take
This': Zero Tolerance of Violence against Health Care Workers in a Time of
Insecurity: Jonathan Gabe and Mary Ann Elston Afterword - Risk and Welfare:
Bent Greve Index