Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorPowell, Jason*
dc.contributor.authorWahidin, Azrini*
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-02T13:52:25Zen
dc.date.available2016-06-02T13:52:25Zen
dc.date.issued2009-10-14en
dc.identifier.citationPowell, J. L., & Wahidin, A. (Eds.). (2009). Risk and Social Welfare. New York, NY: Nova Science.en
dc.identifier.isbn9781607416913en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/611566en
dc.description.abstractThis book explores the relationship between risk and social welfare. Traditionally, need has been the major mechanism for allocating resources in public services, and social policy texts have addressed various state responses to social problems and the alleviation of need. However, in a period of state retrenchment and welfare restriction, rationing and targeting have become more intense. This book explores the extent to which, as a result, discourses of risk have replaced ‘need’ as a key principle of social welfare rationing and provision. It begins with an contextual overview of contemporary theories on risk and goes on to critically examine the relevance of risk to social policy and social welfare developments. This is achieved by drawing on recent social policy and case examples from aging, social welfare, social work, health, crime and criminal justice, medicine, and human security. It is hoped that the book will be of particular use to students, practitioners and policy makers.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherNova Science Publishersen
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=10152&osCsid=f945d08ad293ff429d267177a9d32b28en
dc.subjectRisken
dc.subjectPoweren
dc.titleRisk and Social Welfareen
dc.typeBooken
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Liverpool; Nottingham Trent Universityen
dc.date.accepted2009-06-02en
or.grant.openaccessYesen
rioxxterms.funderUnfundeden
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUnfundeden
rioxxterms.versionNAen
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2009-10-14en
html.description.abstractThis book explores the relationship between risk and social welfare. Traditionally, need has been the major mechanism for allocating resources in public services, and social policy texts have addressed various state responses to social problems and the alleviation of need. However, in a period of state retrenchment and welfare restriction, rationing and targeting have become more intense. This book explores the extent to which, as a result, discourses of risk have replaced ‘need’ as a key principle of social welfare rationing and provision. It begins with an contextual overview of contemporary theories on risk and goes on to critically examine the relevance of risk to social policy and social welfare developments. This is achieved by drawing on recent social policy and case examples from aging, social welfare, social work, health, crime and criminal justice, medicine, and human security. It is hoped that the book will be of particular use to students, practitioners and policy makers.


This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record