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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare"”.
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The influence of socio-enviromental design factors (SEDeF) of crime prevention on residential property values in Nigeria
… negative impact on the neighbourhood in general and property value in particular is seen not to be given the expected attention both in the academia and government setting. The consequences of residential neighbourhood crime are found to be devastating. Hence, the purpose of this study is to …
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A web of vulnerability and harms: caring for women who use spice in prison
… the most commonly found drugs in prisons in England and Wales. The study draws on 15 semi-structured interviews with participants with relevant experiences of Spice use in women’s prisons. It considers three groups affected by Spice harms in women’s prisons: (1) women who use Spice, (2) …
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Exploring illness and social care management: comparing consumer perspectives of suffering and the challenges faced by service providers
… approach to investigate how these women coped and how service providers, including carers, met their needs. The author used participant observation in his role as Occupational Therapist (and son) to gain access to this sample. He asked them to keep written diaries about their day-to-day …
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Does “civic engagement” work?: civic engagement of older people and their ‘embeddedness’ in a society in the United Kingdom
This study investigates how UK policies and initiatives promoting civic engagement of older people impact their ‘embeddedness.’ ‘Embeddedness,’ which has been my research theme continuously for the past ten years, describes intricate dynamic relationships between an individual and his/her physical …
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Knowing the patient well: learning disability nurses’ experiences of caring for terminally ill people with profound learning disabilities in residential care settings
… the study is to explore the perceived knowledge and skills of this group of nurses. It concerns how they assess, recognise and discover patients’ illnesses and how they provide end of life care needs. A total of 36 learning disability nurses participated in in-depth interviews. Thematic analysis …
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Amoral panic: the construction of 'antisocial behaviour' and the institutionalisation of vulnerability
… to sociological work around ideas of ‘risk’ and a ‘culture of fear’, this thesis attempts to examine the emergence of the social problem of ‘antisocial behaviour’. Situated in part within the changing political terrain of the 1990s, the emergence of the politics of behaviour is related to the …
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Children's experiences of divorce in Botswana
This study explores children and mothers' perceptions of children's experiences of divorce in Botswana. To illuminate this complex topic, the study draws on two main overlapping theoretical perspectives. These are the social constructionist approach and the sociology of childhood approach. The …
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Interest groups and policy-making: the welfare state, 1942-1964
… explores the views of the peak level industrial and labour organisations towards government social policy after the publication of the Beveridge Report in 1942. The reform of state welfare in the 1940s meant that employers and trade unions became more involved in the administration than in the …
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Foster children's sibling relationships in middle childhood
… Foster children's current relationship qualities and processes were considered in the context of their past family experiences and environments, their sibling relationship history, and their expectations of their siblings in the future. The aim was to extend our current understanding of the nature …
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Understanding transitions through homelessness in a risk society
… have been accused of lacking theoretical and conceptual clarity. This study aimed to rectify this through an analysis of data collected using a qualitative longitudinal research methodology on the transitions through homelessness made by twenty-eight people in a Scottish city. Three key …
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Multidimensional and Persistent Poverty: Methodological Approaches to Measurement Issues
Multidimensional deprivation and persistent poverty are important research areas within the poverty measurement literature. Still, both encompass measurement issues for which methodological solutions are yet to be analysed. The thesis that I present here analyses three specific measurement issues, …
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Combat-Activated Thymic Disorientation
… limited its consideration to Homeric material, and has also cross-interpreted the concept through modern psychological and physiological lenses in order to develop clinical applications. The original contribution of this thesis is the provision of a diachronic lens for investigating thymos in …
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Spaces of New Labour Youth policy
… the issue of policy change by focussing on time and space as the conditions of possibility for change. Drawing on post-structuralist theory, it interrogates existing theories of policy change with special attention paid to how these theories construct time and space. This engagement with policy …
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The importance of being efficacious: English health and social care partnerships and service user outcomes
The need for health and social care agencies and their professionals to work in partnership is a central component of contemporary English health and social care policy. Partnership is predicated on the notion that this way of working improves services and outcomes for service users. However, as …
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Social exclusion and young people: a critical realist strong late modern analytic
… came to power in 1997, one of the best known social policy changes they made was the prioritisation of social exclusion as at the vanguard of government policy, through the establishment of the Social Exclusion Unit. Social exclusion’s ‘value added’ potentiality is as a broader analysis of the …
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An Invitation to Change? An Ethnographic Study of a Residential Therapeutic Community for Substance Use
… Community (TC) in the North West of England for individuals with a history of substance use. The thesis identifies and addresses the omission of process based research in the existing literature on TC’s for substance use and pays particular attention to how such unique settings provide an …
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The roles, motivations, and capacities of the community in the desistance process: A case study of the Knowsley area.
… research study explores the roles, motivations, and capacities that communities within Knowsley, Merseyside, England, can play in the re-integration and re-settlement of ex-prisoners. It takes place during the time when transformations to rehabilitation are operational in practice. The research …
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‘Piggy in the middle' A dialogical approach to the policing of protest and the balancing of human rights
… is an intrinsic part of a democratic society and embedded in UK history and tradition. The police are responsible for managing public order and facilitating peaceful protest, and this has not been without criticism. On occasions the police have found themselves in opposition to protest groups …
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A Critical Analysis of Victims' Experiences and State Responses to a Corporate Killing
… are missing from the criminal justice arena and academia. This research will attempt, in part, to fill the gap in the following ways. First, the longstanding separation between safety crime and ‘real’ or ‘traditional’ crime is both reflected and institutionalised through state responses to …
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