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Intro -- AGING, GENDER AND CRIME -- AGING, GENDER AND CRIME -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Problematizing Old Age, Victimization and Crime -- Background -- Mapping out Terrain: Theory, Research and Policy -- Thinking Critically About (missing text?) -- Reflection -- Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 2 Aging, Crime and Prisons -- Introduction -- Aging and Imprisonment: Comparative Trends - America, UK, Germany and Japan -- The Greying of the American Prison Population -- An Empirical Example of Older Offenders and Imprisonment: The Case of the UK and US -- 'Out of Sight - Out of Mind': The Invisible Minority -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Gender, Aging and the Power of Special Hospitals -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Treatments in Special Hospitals -- Admission to a Special Hospital -- Questioning Current Structures -- Confinement -- General Literature Review of Women in Prisons -- Literature Review of Women in Special Hospitals -- Special Women in Special Hospitals: Experiences -- Discussion and Implications of the Review -- Dangerousness: Implications -- Masculinity and Special Hospitals -- Conclusion: Masculinities and Special Hospitals -- Chapter 4 Re-thinking Aging, Gender and Crime -- Theorizing Aging Studies - Age, Gender, Identity and Surveillance -- Critical Gerontology -- Gender and Aging -- Aging in Postmodernity -- Aging and Surveillance State -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- References -- Index.

Intro -- BAUDRILLARD AND POSTMODERNISM -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- USING THE 'SOCIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION' IN POSTMODERN ANALYSIS: SOCIAL THEORY AT MANY LEVELS -- MODERNITY: 'THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE' - THEORY AND SOCIETY -- MODERNITY AND SOME IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 2 IS THE TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION? -- i) Baudrillard -- ii) Lyotard and the Death of Modern Social Theory -- DEFENDERS OF PROJECT OF MODERNITY -- i) Habermas -- ii) Alex Callinicos - 'Rome Burns' -- Chapter 3 THE EMERGENCE AND ANALYSIS OF THE POSTMODERN -- Chapter 4 BAUDRILLARD AND WORKS ON SOCIAL THEORY -- EVALUATION OF POSTMODERNISM -- Chapter 5 AN ASSESSMENT OF POSTMODERNISM AND BAUDRILLARD -- Chapter 6 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Intro -- HABERMAS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Biography of Habermas -- Chapter 2 Critical Theory -- Critical Theory: Historical Influences -- Critical Theory and Frankfurt School -- The Dialectic of Enlightenment: Reconstructing the Humanist Project -- Chapter 3 The Work of Jurgen Habermas -- 'Building Block' of Modernism: Communicative Action -- 'In the Blue and Red Corners': Lyotard vs. Habermas -- Putting Habermas under the Theoretical Microscope -- The Domain of Communicative Reason -- Thinking with and beyond Marx, Weber and the Frankfurt School -- The Theory of Communicative Action -- The Origins and Constitution of the Lifeworld -- The Uncoupling of System from Life World -- Summary -- Chapter 4 An Assessment of the Impact of Habermas -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Intro -- FEMINISM -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION ON FEMINISM -- Chapter 2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEMINIST SOCIAL THEORY -- Chapter 3 EARLY FEMINISM -- DURKHEIM, MARX AND WEBER - GENDER IMPLICATIONS -- THE RISE AND CONSOLIDATION OF FEMINIST SOCIAL THEORIES -- Modernity and Gender -- Chapter 4 CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM -- The Ageing Body and Gender -- Chapter 5 CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Intro -- UNDERSTANDING THE VOLUNTARY SECTOR -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Executive Summary -- Introduction: -- Chapter 1 Aims and Literature Review -- 1. Introduction -- 1.10. Literature Review: Rationale and Research Context of Research Themes -- 1.14. Research Theme: (i) Governance and (ii) Leadership -- 1.15. Research Theme: (iii) Performance -- 1.16. Research Themes: (iv) Finance and (v) Funding -- 1.17. Research Theme: (vi) Workforce Development and Training -- 1.18. Research Theme: (vii) Working with others and (viii) Partnerships -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Research Methodology: Rationale -- 2. Introduction -- 2.4. Method One: Survey/Questionnaires -- 2.6. What Are Questionnaires? -- 2.7. Method Two: Focus Groups -- 2.8. What Is a Focus Group and Why Use Them? -- 2.11. The Role of Focus Groups -- 2.16. The Focus Group Data -- 2.17. Methodology Three: Case Study Interviews -- 2.18. Why Interviews? -- Chapter 3 Research Discussion and Findings -- 3. Methodology One: Questionnaire Results -- 3.2. Governance -- 3.3. Leadership -- 3.4. Funding and Finance -- 3.5. Performance -- 3.6. Workforce -- 3.7. Working with Others/Partnerships -- Summary -- 3.8. Methodology two: Focus Groups Findings -- (i) The research project: Focus Groups Data - 2008 -- 3.9. (i) Governance and (ii) Leadership -- 3.10. Performance -- 3.11. Finance and (v) Funding -- 3.12. Workforce Development -- 3.13. Working with Others and Partnerships -- 3.14 The research project: Focus Groups Data - 2009 -- 3.15. Funding Changes and Experiences of the Last 12 Months -- 3.16. Training and Effectiveness over the Past 12 Months -- 3.17. Partnerships over the Past 12 Months -- 3.18. Skills and Confidence Have You Developed in the Last 12 Months? -- 3.19. The research project: Focus Groups Data - 2010 -- 3.20.

Intro -- EXPLORING POLICING, CRIME AND SOCIETY: A BRIEF BUT CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION -WHAT IS POLICING? CONCEPTUAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE BRITISH PERSPECTIVE: THE RISE AND CONSOLIDATION OF POLICE -- Chapter 2: POLICING, CULTURE AND DISCRETION -- I. POLICE SOLIDARITY -- II. POLICE SUSPICION -- III. POLICE EXCITEMENT -- SEXISM AND POLICE DISCRETION -- RACISM AND POLICE DISCRETION -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 3: COMMUNITY POLICING V MILITARIZED POLICING -- THE FALL OF CONSENSUS POLICING -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 4: ACCOUNTABILITY AND POWERS OF THE POLICE: THE CASE OF THE UK -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTEMPORARY STRUCTURE OF POLICE: THE POLICE ACT 1964 -- CONSTITUTIONAL ROLE OF THE POLICE -- WE CAN TAKE TWO EXAMPLES OF RANK: CHIEF CONSTABLE AND CONSTABLE -- ACCOUNTABILITY -- 4 BASIC ISSUES NEED ADDRESSING -- THE POLICE AND CRIMINAL EVIDENCE ACT 1984 (PACE) -- THE INDEPENDENT POLICE? -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 5: THE NEW RIGHT AND POLICING -ESSENTIAL CONTEXT -- INTRODUCTION -- SCARMAN, ENGLAND AND POLICING -- RE-TRENCHING POLICING: NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH SCHEMES -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 6: 'NEW LABOR' AND THE ZERO TOLERANCE APPROACH TO POLICING -- INTRODUCTION: ZERO TOLERANCE POLICING -- THE CRIME AND DISORDER ACT (1998) -- EVALUATION -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- Chapter 7: CONCLUSION: ORGANIZED CRIME AND POLICING -- INTRODUCTION -- BRITISH CONTEXT -- TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME -- CASE EXAMPLE 1: DRUG TRAFFICKING -- IMPLICATIONS OF DRUG TRADE -- QUESTIONS OF LIBERTY? -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Intro -- THE SOCIOLOGY OF CARE -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- PART 1: SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATIONS OF CARE -- Chapter 1 SCIENTIFIC CARE OR SOCIAL CARE? THE CASE OF AGING -- GERONTOLOGY AS 'SCIENTIFIC' APPROACHES -- GERONTOLOGY AS SOCIAL APPROACH -- Chapter 2 BIO-ETHICS AND CARE -- INTRODUCTION -- BIOMEDICINE, SOCIOLOGY AND THE CONTESTATION OF 'TRUTH' -- FOUCAULT, TECHNOLOGIES OF SELF AND AGING -- PROBLEMATIZING AGING AND ILLNESS -- CONCLUSION -- PART 2: SOCIAL POLICY AND PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCES: THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS -- Chapter 3 FROM WESTERN CONSUMERISM TO THE PERSONALIZATION OF SOCIAL CARE -- INTRODUCTION -- 'TAKING AIM' AT PERSONALIZATION -- SOCIAL POLICY AND PERSONALIZATION -- PERSONALIZATION AND RESEARCH THEMES -- (i) Costs and Cost Effectiveness -- (ii) Eligibility, Assessment and Resource Allocation -- (iii) Planning Support Arrangements with the IB -- (iv) Integrating Funding Streams -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 4 SOCIAL WORK, CARE AND PERFORMATIVITY -- INTRODUCTION -- PERFORMANCE AND PERFORMATIVITY -- RETHINKING POWER AND RESISTANCE -- PERFORMATIVITY AND PROFESSIONALISATION -- 'A PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE': SOCIAL WORK, KNOWLEDGE AND SUBJECTION -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 5 POWER, CARE AND DEATH -- INTRODUCTION -- UNDERSTANDING MICHEL FOUCAULT -- ARCHAEOLOGY AND DEATH -- GENEALOGY AND DEATH -- CONCLUSION -- PART 3: RETHINKING CARE THROUGH TRUST -- Chapter 6 TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF 'TRUSTING' CARE -- INTRODUCTION -- COMMUNITY CARE IN THE UK: CONTEXTUAL BACKDROP -- NAVIGATING TRUST IN CARE MANAGEMENT WITH USERS -- Individuals, Organisations, Community and Systems -- IMPLICATIONS OF TRUST IN COMMUNITY CARE -- LINKING CARE MANAGEMENT WITH TRUST AND GOVERNMENTALITY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Policy discourse and the NHS and Community Care Act (1990): a critical review -- Social theory and the aging body: the importance of theory -- Aging and social theory: a sociological reflection -- Archaeology and genealogy: developments in Foucauldian gerontology -- Foucault, power and social work -- The changing history of social work with older people: a Foucauldian excursion -- Governmentality and aging -- How is old age managed? -- The disciplinary web of power, surveillance and normalization -- Surveillance and aging: the power of community care -- Technologies of self and aging

Intro -- SOCIAL WELFARE, PERSONAL BUDGETS AND CARE: A CASE STUDY -- SOCIAL WELFARE, PERSONAL BUDGETS AND CARE: A CASE STUDY -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- PREFACE -- Chapter One: INTRODUCTION -- Chapter Two: UNDERSTANDING PERSONALISATION: CONCEPTS, PRINCIPLES AND EXISTING RESEARCH -- INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF THE PUBLISHED LITERATURE ON PERSONALISATION -- DEFINING PERSONALISATION -- POLICY, PERSONALIZATION AND INDIVIDUAL BUDGETS -- Personalization and Research Literature Themes -- (I) Costs And Cost Effectiveness -- (ii) Eligibility, assessment and resource allocation -- (iii) Planning support arrangements with the personal budget -- (iv) Integrating funding streams -- Chapter Three: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY: RATIONALE AND DESIGN -- INTRODUCTION -- METHOD ONE: FOCUS GROUPS -- What is a Focus Group and why Use Them? -- The Role of Focus Groups -- The Focus Group Data -- METHODOLOGY TWO: CASE STUDY INTERVIEWS -- Why Interviews? -- Method Three: Survey/ Questionnaires -- What are Questionnaires? -- Chapter Four: RESEARCH DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGY ONE: FOCUS GROUPS FINDINGS -- (I) Appeal of Personal Budgets -- (ii) Support Plans and Brokerage -- (iii) Individual Concerns -- (iv) Positive Impact -- Methodology Two: Case Study Interviews Findings -- Services before Personalization -- Personal Budgets and the Support Plan -- Issues with Personal Budgets -- Life Changing": The Positive Experiences of the Personal Budget -- The Future and Personal Budgets -- Methodology Three: Questionnaires Findings -- Support Plans -- Finances -- Did you receive the Annual Budget on Time? -- Was the Budget Enough? -- Control over Money -- Has this Allowed You More Independence? -- Are You Happy with the Services Received from the Individual Budget? -- Would You Recommend the Individual Budgets to Others?