Poverty and precarity

This richly textured social history recovers the voices and experiences of poor Egyptians--beggars, foundlings, the sick and maimed--giving them a history for the first time.

How was poverty measured and defined, and how has this influenced our judgement of the change in poverty in Britain during the first sixty years of the twentieth century?

An in-depth look at the consequences of New York City's dramatically expanded policing of low-level offensesFelony conviction and mass incarceration attract considerable media attention these days, yet the most common criminal-justice encounters are for misdemeanors, not felonies, and the most common outcome is not prison.

Over the last few years intensive community programmes for both young and adult offenders have become established in the UK as an important new component of penal policy - the ISSP (Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme) for persistent and serious young offenders, and the ICCP (Intensive Control and Change Programme) for adult offenders.

Winner of the International Studies in Poverty Prize awarded by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Zed Books.

First published in 1990, The Politics of Redress is a product of and commentary on significant developments in critical criminology.

This book aims to make the case for and provide some of the resources necessary to reimagine rehabilitation for twenty-first-century criminal justice.

This collection considers academic research engagements with indigenous, small peasant, urban poor and labour social activism against colonial capitalist dispossession and exploitation in Asia and the Americas.

In a provocative assessment of American poverty and policy from 1950 to the present, Frank Stricker examines an era that has seen serious discussion about the causes of poverty and unemployment.

For thousands of years, Ethiopia has depended on its smallholding farmers to provide the bulk of its food needs.

Sympathy for the poor and resentment of the rich are widespread, and they influence Americans'' political preferences.

Precise connections between race, poverty, and the condition of America's cities are drawn in this collection of seventeen essays.

Justice, Indigenous Peoples, and Canada: A History of Courage and Resilience brings together the work of a number of leading researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and continue to face today.

Drawing upon decades of research and myriad authentic classroom experiences, Kathleen M.

Tropman examines American values and the two groups that threaten those values.

'One of the most exciting and provocative books that I've read in a long time' - Mike Davis, author of Planet of the SlumsCan people who live in shantytowns, shacks and favelas teach us anything about democracy?

China's explosive economic growth since 1988 has not resulted in an equal increase of income among all Chinese citizens.

This Handbook provides a comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date source of information and analysis about all aspects of the work of the Probation Service.

First published in 1962, Capital Punishment and British Politics illuminates the process of political decision-making in Britain by analysing the complex activities that led to the passage of a major piece of social legislation, the Homicide Act of 1957.

This book demonstrates how the various legal efforts employed to eradicate global urban poverty also play a significant role in shaping it.

This book describes the Pathways project that traces the individual development of several black young men from poor families who grew up in the Roxbury/North Dorchester ghetto from 1967 to 1974.

This work presents the most recent data on poverty, family structure and participation in welfare programmes.

This book focuses on the intelligent technologies that are transforming creative practices and industries.

A thorough survey of the most complete, coordinated system of unemployment relief in the world, established on a permanent basis in 1914.

This edited volume represents a joint effort by international experts to analyze the prevalence and nature of gender-based domestic violence across the globe and how it is dealt with at both national and international levels.

Release from prison is matter of increasing interest throughout Europe.

This detailed book is a resource for students, practitioners, and leaders interested in how the major world religions have understood poverty and responded to the poor.

With more than 450,000 copies in print, When Helping Hurts is a paradigm-forming contemporary classic on the subject of poverty alleviation.

There is more value on a single page of Seeds of Change than in a years worth of Rush Limbaugh screeds combined with a lifetime of Sarah Palin sneers at community organizers.

This 2004 book compares the effects of unemployment and inadequate employment relative to adequate employment.

This book tells the story of the star class, a segregated division for first offenders in English convict prisons; known informally as 'star men', convicts assigned to the division were identified by a red star sewn to their uniforms.

World Poverty provides an authoritative and balanced examination of the many facets of world poverty and the policy issues surrounding it.

THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR*Shortlisted for the 2021 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award*'This unique and fascinating history explains why the blame now being piled upon meritocracy for many social ills is misplaced-and that assigning responsibilities to the people best able to discharge them really is better than the time-honoured customs of corruption, patronage, nepotism and hereditary castes' Steven PinkerMeritocracy: the idea that people should be advanced according to their talents rather than their status at birth.

Biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation are both important societal goals demanding increasing international attention.

Paediatric Neurosurgery for Nurses: Evidence-based care for children and their families provides accessible and up-to-date information for nurses working in paediatric neurosurgery.

Das Ziel, Verurteilte wieder in die Gesellschaft einzugliedern, ist so alt wie der moderne Strafvollzug selbst.

Rarely has such a contentious and complex issue emerged in twenty-first century development as that of water.

Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis is evolving rapidly.

This book investigates the best strategies for poverty alleviation in post-disaster urban environments, and the conditions necessary for the success and scaling up of these strategies.

Egypt is a country of its people.

In order to analyze the economic effects of various policy proposals for reforming the welfare state a model has been developed called MIMIC.

Poverty and Shame: Global Experiences explores Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's contention that shame lies at the absolutist core of poverty.

Over the last few years intensive community programmes for both young and adult offenders have become established in the UK as an important new component of penal policy - the ISSP (Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme) for persistent and serious young offenders, and the ICCP (Intensive Control and Change Programme) for adult offenders.

Since the end of the Cold War, increasing numbers of people have been forced to leave their homes as a result of armed conflict, internal strife, and systematic violations of human rights.

The Economic and Opportunity Gap has a great deal of information, ideas and resources focused on children and families living in poverty.