Böcker av Mark Drakeford

This book offers a clear and comprehensive guide to youth justice practice based on a solid grounding of academic research and in-depth understanding of how the youth justice system operates.

Features an analysis of lively exchanges between children on their local, national and global identities, politics, language and race. This book focuses on what local and national identities mean to children in an era of cultural and economic globalization. It is for students and researchers of childhood studies and the sociology of childhood.

Privatisation and Social Policy addresses one of the key issues of recent years, the covert but undeniable impact of growing privatisation on the development and implementation of social policy.

The public inquiry that followed the death of Maria Colwell had profound implications for the developing profession and practice of social work in the UK. This book describes the politics, professional concerns and public interest - both local and national - that surrounded the inquiry and its aftermath, and shows how the concerns of this landmark child abuse case have still failed to find a satisfactory resolution today. Social work, then and now, remains 'on trial'.

What has the contemporary financial context meant for social policy, social work and the relationship between them? Examining the role of political, economic and societal forces, this lively book uses a full range of supportive features to encourage reflection on the impact of austerity on different social groups, social work and social care.

This work represents a detailed, researched attempt to investigate the role which the Probation Service might play in the field of trial and probation. Using an on-th-ground investigation of current practise, it looks at those services which can assist courts to release defendants on bail.