The crisis of internally displaced persons (IDPs) was first confronted in the 1980s, and the problems of those suffering from this type of forced migration has grown continually since then. This volume traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting IDPs. Drawing on official and confidential documents as well as interviews with leading personalities, "Internal Displacement" provides an unparalleled analysis of this important issue and includes: An exploration of the phenomenon of internal displacement and of policy research about it A review of efforts to increase awareness about the plight of IDPs and the development of a legal framework to protect them A 'behind-the-scenes' look at the creation and evolution of the mandate of the Representative of the Secretary-General on IDPs A variety of case studies illustrating the difficulties in overcoming the operational shortcomings within the UN system A foreword by former UN high commissioner for refugees, Sadako Ogata. "Internal Displacement "is written by two outstanding scholars and will appeal to students, scholars, and practitioners with interests in war and peace, forced migration, human rights and global governance.

Stay up-to-date with the latest innovative methods of meeting the spiritual needs of the elderly Spiritual Assessment and Intervention: Current Directions and Applications examines current state-of-the-art efforts in the development and implementation of spiritual interventions for older adults. Academics and practitioners working in social work, social welfare, medicine, and mental health and aging present innovative approaches to meeting major challenges in the field of gerontology, including elder abuse, dementia, care giving, palliative care, and intergenerational relationships. The book provides practical methods for dealing with the problems and pitfalls of starting and evaluating interventions of a spiritual nature in a variety of community-based and institutional settings. Spiritual Assessment and Intervention: Current Directions and Applications provides you with an overview of current and future methods and means of providing spiritual support to the elderly as they struggle with the problems and possibilities of aging in today's complex world.Growing interest in the positive effects that religiousness and spirituality can have on life stress has created a growing need for research and practice models that strengthen, reinforce, or promote the spiritual well-being of older adults. This collection first presented in 2003 at the 56th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America addresses the important care giving and practice issues involving the physical and psychological health of older adults.Spiritual Assessment and Intervention: Current Directions and Applications examines: how older adults use narrative therapy to manage adversity and maintain self-efficacy how faith-based communities can be enlisted as important social resources a pilot government-funded project to raise awareness of elder abuse in faith communities an intergenerational project involving a preschool and a retirement community spiritual activities for adults with Alzheimer's disease the Creating Alternative Relaxing Environment (CARE) Cabinet intervention Spiritual Assessment and Intervention: Current Directions and Applications is an essential resource for gerontological practitioners from the biological, clinical (including physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and dentists), behavioral and social sciences (including anthropologists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, and researchers), and for health care administrators.

This book sets out to investigate the relationship between crime and the design and planning of housing, and to produce practical recommendations to help architects and planners to reduce crime. The book builds upon and updates research originally published in Crime Free Housing (1991), providing an easily accessible, high quality, and well presented account of crime and housing layout. The book focuses on strategies for reducing four different types of crime through better design, including: Burglarydiscouraging people from trying to break into houses; Car crimeproviding a safe place to park cars; Theft around the homeprotecting the front of the house, as well as items in gardens, sheds, and garages; Criminal damageminimizing malicious damage to property.

People with personality disorder who offend tend to be neglected by health services in most countries. In the UK, there has been renewed interest in the field since government initiatives in the end of the 1990s. Government proposals themselves are controversial, but there is growing recognition that it is unsafe, both for the general public and for the primary sufferer alike, if the neglect continues. Years of experience have combined to provide a highly practical reference work covering: A*Models of understanding of personality development and disorder A*Methods of assessment and treatment and how they can be applied and modified A*Special issues - drug misuse, long-stay induced secondary disorders, issues pertinent to women only, 'intractable' patients A*A path for care - from initial assessment to the logistics of discharge A*Management issues - choosing staff, supervision and support of staff Evidence-based and entirely comprehensive in its approach, practitioners will find Personality Disorder and Serious Offending both a practical and insightful adjunct that will assist them in their work.

The book is the first of its kind to provide a comparative analysis of the provision of social and public services in France, Italy, Germany, the UK and Norway. This volume, co-authored by leading national experts, topically examines whether, when, how and why the delivery of social and public services, which was historically a responsibility of local authorities, has been significantly shifted to marketized and commodified forms. However, despite this considerable change, there have been recent indications of remunicipalization in some sectors. Combining both cross-country and cross-policy comparisons in a broad range of pertinent service fields, this volume fills a noticeable gap in the international literature currently available.Mirroring the underlying interdisciplinary approach of the book, the findings will be useful and attractive to students of law and economics as well as political science and sociology. Academic researchers and politicians on all intergovernmental levels will also find this book insightful and stimulating.

Get up-to-date information and research on elder abusefrom international authorities! Elder Abuse: Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence is an invaluable collection of the most important presentation papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence. This comprehensive book presents the latest research and detailed information on the difficult issues surrounding elder abuse around the world. International experts use a multidisciplinary approach to provide ideas and insights to help provide researchers, educators, and practitioners with practical strategies for dealing with the numerous facets of this disturbing issue. Different types of abuse are explored in detail, including physical, financial, and emotional. This comprehensive source is richly referenced, with helpful tables to clearly explain data valuable to all law and health professionals involved in the issues of elder abuse. Elder Abuse: Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence discusses: grandparents raising grandchildren the elder abuse of custodial grandparents combating financial abuse of elders by others a study of elder abuse within diverse cultures forensic medical examination form for improved documentation and prosecution of elder abuse elder abuse in faith communities older women, domestic violence, and elder abuse elder abuse risk indicators elder abuse multidisciplinary teams Elder Abuse: Selected Papers from the Prague World Congress on Family Violence is essential reading for researchers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers in the fields of aging, health, mental health, social services, adult protective services, domestic violence, law, and criminal justice.

Today, nearly one of every eight Americans is 65 or older, and by 2030, over 20% of the population will be in this age group. Are you prepared to work with this vastly diverseand rapidly growingpopulation? This single source is designed to help social service professionals provide effective services to America's vastly diverse and rapidly growing elderly population. Diversity and Aging in the Social Environment explores the impact of race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and geographic location on elders' strengths, challenges, needs, and resources to provide you with a more complete understanding of the issues elders face. In order to be more responsive to older adults, social workers and other human service professionals need to enhance their knowledge of the aging population and the factors that impact the way seniors interact with society, organizations, community resources, neighborhoods, support networks, kinship groups, family, and friends. Diversity and Aging in the Social Environment examines differences in race, ethnicity, geographical location, sexual orientation, religion, and health status to help current and future human service professionals provide culturally competent services to the diverse range of elderly people they serve. In addition, it addresses the wide disparity that exists for older Americans in terms of income and assets, number of chronic conditions, functional and cognitive impairment, housing arrangements, and access to health care. This book provides a context for the examination of diversity issues among older adults by describing and discussing several theoretical perspectives on aging that highlight important aspects of diversity. Next, you'll find thoughtful examinations of: issues and challenges faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender eldersand the strengths they bring into later life the impact of gender, race, and sexual orientation on prevalence rates, risk factors, methods of disease contraction, and mortality rates among older adults with HIV/AIDSalong with a discussion of the psychosocial issues they face diverse characteristics of custodial grandparentsand the influence of the caregivers' gender, race, age, and geographic location on methods of care and available caregiver support differences in caregiver characteristics, service utilization, caregiver strain, and coping mechanisms among several racial/ethnic groups of adults who care for elderly, disabled, and ill persons cultural/religious factors that influence interactions between health care personnel and Japanese-American elders the relationship between acculturation and depressive symptoms among Mexican-American couples life challenges facing Jewish and African-American elderswith a look at each group's coping mechanisms differences in religious/spiritual coping skills among Native American, African-American, and white elders psychological well-being and religiosity among a diverse group of rural elders

Women and families within the criminal justice system (CJS) are increasingly the focus of research and this book considers the timely issues of intersectionality, violence and gender. With insights from frontline practice and from the lived experiences of women, the collection examines prison experiences in a post-COVID-19 world, domestic violence and the successes and failures of family support. A companion to the first edited collection, Critical Reflections on Women, Family, Crime and Justice, the book sheds new light on the challenges and experiences of women and families who encounter the CJS. Accessible to both academics and practitioners and with real-world policy recommendations, this collection demonstrates how positive change can be achieved.

In recent years increasing attention has been paid to issues of social exclusion and the problematic transition from youthful dependence to adult independence. Often this has had severe consequences, ranging from under achievement and disruptive behaviour in school, through the misuse of alcohol and drugs, to serious or persistent offending. Seeking to address these issues has become a major focus of public policy and a variety of forms of intervention with disaffected youth have been set up. One of the most talked about forms of intervention with disaffected youth has been 'mentoring'. This book, based on a large-scale research study, examines the lives of a large group of 'disaffected' young people, and considers the impact that involvement in a mentoring programme had on them. In doing so it fills a large gap, providing empirical evidence on the effectiveness of mentoring programmes, providing at the same time a vivid insight into the nature of such disaffection, the realities of contemporary social exclusion among young people and the experience and outcome of mentoring.

The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States is a timely addition to the knowledge base concerning the integration of this population into the fabric of American society. On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of the 1965 Immigration Reform Act, this book examines the relationship between immigrants from the Caribbean and the culture of the United States. This body of work provides resources for scholars and researchers and provides instrumental strategies for use in practice by counselors/social workers, curriculum developers, and immigration analysts. With this book, you will develop a new appreciation for the social capital immigrants bring with them, their adaptation to their new society, and the extent to which their distinctive characteristics promote or hinder their social mobility. Using tables, figures, and graphs, The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States provides thorough analyses of broad-ranging issues and proposes viable solutions to the problems these immigrants face. In this important resource, expert educators, researchers, and community leaders address the unique challenges that affect this population, including: increased infant mortality rates increased HIV/AIDS among the Caribbean community the growing trend of violence and abuse among Caribbean and Caribbean-American youths the special needs of aging and elderly immigrants living in the United States the impact of the 1996 immigration legislation on Caribbean families The Health and Well-Being of Caribbean Immigrants in the United States paints a clear picture of how these citizens are coping with the social, economic, and political aspects of the American way of life. This guide offers new findings and insight into the reality of the diverse immigrant Caribbean population, setting the stage for establishing groundbreaking initiatives to develop better support services. Innovative community-based approaches and culturally specific prescriptive intervention models make this book an integral source for social scientists, human service professionals, and policymakers.

Get a detailed overview of the social services provided for HIV-infected midlife and older adults, and find out where social work practice with this growing population is headed! As more potent medications are being developed to treat HIV, people who have contracted the virus are living longer lives than previously expected. Survival means new side effects and increasingly complex issues, now compounded by the diseases of aging. All this presents unprecedented challenges to social service and benefit systems. Midlife and Older Adults and HIV: Implications for Social Service Research, Practice and Policy introduces policymakers and policy analysts, practitioners in the helping professions, and the public to available social services for aging adults who are living with HIV/AIDS. It also addresses midlife and older adults at risk of HIV infection as well as aging persons whose lives are affected by relatives and friends living with HIV. Midlife and Older Adults and HIV provides a comprehensive examination of this emerging field of practice. Specific chapters examine prevention, family care, vulnerability, inclusion, and the disease process itself. It lays out the broad terrain of future social work practice with HIV-infected elders and elders affected by HIV. The book concludes with reflections on survivorship during the past two decades from six older community leaders living with HIV/AIDS. It also provides current research findings, innovative conceptual models, an invaluable compendium of resource information from the National Association of HIV Over Fifty, and program ideas to address the HIV epidemic within the aging population. The issues addressed in Midlife and Older Adults and HIV include: HIV prevention initiatives coordination and integration of local service networks the health, social, and financial risks facing women with HIV the health consequences of HIV/AIDS and its interactions with normal aging the use of behavioral reinforcement methods as interventions perceptions of vulnerability to HIV among older African-American women and the role of intimate partners and much more! Midlife and Older Adults and HIV is a comprehensive resource on social services for aging adults who are living with HIV/AIDS. It serves as a record of what is known and what is presently being learned about practice in this constantly evolving field. The book is a call to action for social workers and other human service professionals to anticipate and plan for the emerging needs of persons with HIV/AIDS who are rapidly growing older. The array of topics covered in this volume also makes it ideal as a supplemental textbook in courses on HIV and aging.

Written by specialists in the fields of food bioterrorism and industry preparedness, Bioterrorism and Food Safety focuses on developing rational and implementable food security strategies and plans. It integrates food safety issues, technological developments in traceability, and legal analysis of current and pending regulations with good business practices, and then relates these elements to the development of effective and workable food security programs for food businesses.

The text covers the biological and chemical risks associated with the intentional contamination of food and discusses underlying legal issues, regulatory compliance, and cost/benefit analysis. It also provides implementation strategies to reduce food security risks, discusses advances in traceability, and suggests ways to reduce the risk of intentional contamination and improve consumer confidence in the safety of the food supply.

With its clear presentation of current hazards, safety guidelines, and security measures, this comprehensive work introduces practicing professionals throughout the food industry and those charged with the responsibility of terrorism prevention to workable strategies that address address safety risks associated with all facets of food production, storage, and delivery.

Get a detailed overview of the social services provided for HIV-infected midlife and older adults, and find out where social work practice with this growing population is headed! As more potent medications are being developed to treat HIV, people who have contracted the virus are living longer lives than previously expected. Survival means new side effects and increasingly complex issues, now compounded by the diseases of aging. All this presents unprecedented challenges to social service and benefit systems. Midlife and Older Adults and HIV: Implications for Social Service Research, Practice and Policy introduces policymakers and policy analysts, practitioners in the helping professions, and the public to available social services for aging adults who are living with HIV/AIDS. It also addresses midlife and older adults at risk of HIV infection as well as aging persons whose lives are affected by relatives and friends living with HIV. Midlife and Older Adults and HIV provides a comprehensive examination of this emerging field of practice. Specific chapters examine prevention, family care, vulnerability, inclusion, and the disease process itself. It lays out the broad terrain of future social work practice with HIV-infected elders and elders affected by HIV. The book concludes with reflections on survivorship during the past two decades from six older community leaders living with HIV/AIDS. It also provides current research findings, innovative conceptual models, an invaluable compendium of resource information from the National Association of HIV Over Fifty, and program ideas to address the HIV epidemic within the aging population. The issues addressed in Midlife and Older Adults and HIV include: HIV prevention initiatives coordination and integration of local service networks the health, social, and financial risks facing women with HIV the health consequences of HIV/AIDS and its interactions with normal aging the use of behavioral reinforcement methods as interventions perceptions of vulnerability to HIV among older African-American women and the role of intimate partners and much more! Midlife and Older Adults and HIV is a comprehensive resource on social services for aging adults who are living with HIV/AIDS. It serves as a record of what is known and what is presently being learned about practice in this constantly evolving field. The book is a call to action for social workers and other human service professionals to anticipate and plan for the emerging needs of persons with HIV/AIDS who are rapidly growing older. The array of topics covered in this volume also makes it ideal as a supplemental textbook in courses on HIV and aging.

Learn the skills you need to work with geriatric populations in rural areas! Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities provides a range of intervention and community skills aimed precisely at the needs of rural elders. This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on the specific practice concerns for social workers assisting older adults in rural areas, including the aging experience, social worker skills, professional functions, working with special populations, and health and long-term care concerns. This valuable resource will benefit social workers, gerontologists, allied health professionals in rural areas, health and human services administrators and managers. Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities explores the challenges social workers need to overcome when working with the elder community in rural areas. This book's significance to social workers will only increase as more adults choose to live and grow old away from the cities. Experts in the field suggest strategies to overcome barriers in planning and providing services such as: a longer distance for the elderly to travel to use social service centers a narrower range of available services in the local area increased poverty levels for the elderly a stronger dependency by elderly on family rather than public assistance This book is divided into five sections: Rurality and Agingintroduces the concept of rurality and examines the demographics of aging from a rural perspective Practice Dimensions of Social Work with Rural Eldersincludes clinical practice models, intervention and advocacy techniques, program planning, and marketing approaches Special Populationsgives attention to four special population groups: indigenous elders, African-American older adults, elderly Latinos, and disabled elders Special Issues Pertaining to Rural Elderscovers five essential issues for rural gerontological social workers: health promotion, older workers and retirement preparation, aging in place, specialized housing, and ethical practice Training and Policy Recommendationsfuture training and education recommendations for social workers are explored, as well as service capacity building, the aging network, and the future of long-term care While a variety of theoretical perspectives are explored in Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities, the book's empowerment orientation and strengths-based approach will enhance your abilities to improve quality of life for elderly individuals in rural communities. Each chapter contains a comprehensive review of the literature on the subject it addresses, and several chapters include tables and graphs to further establish their revealing empirical findings. An appendix provides additional sources to turn to for more information.

This comprehensive Handbook provides a unique examination of the key issues and challenges facing society and social policy in the twenty-first century. Featuring both wide-ranging coverage of major issues and detailed analysis of social policies in different countries, the Handbook explores key concepts, policy areas and institutions, considering welfare and social policy in the context of wider socio-economic and cultural divisions. In addition to examining specific policy areas, contributors engage with the social divisions and complex infrastructures that underpin them on both local and global scales. Chapters also discuss significant challenges to contemporary social policy, including the threats to human and societal wellbeing posed by austerity, migration and the climate crisis, as well as the opportunities these present to reshape policy conceptually, ideologically and practically in the future in response to these issues. Scholars and students in social policy, sociology and political science looking for a comprehensive overview of the field of social policy will find this Handbook an invaluable resource. It will also prove useful to researchers and practitioners seeking in-depth analyses of particular countries or policy areas covered. Contributors include: E. Adamson, H. Bochel, D. Byrne, M. Calnan, B. Cantillon, H. Dean, C. Deeming, A. Dinham, F. Dukelow, B. Ebbinghaus, D. Edmiston, N. Ellison, K. Farnsworth, D. Finn, J.L. Garritzmann, M. Griffiths, P. Hall, K. Hamblin, T. Haux, A.J. He, E. Hogg, G. Huang, B. Hvinden, G.-J. Hwang, J. Javornik, R. Jawad, J. Jenson, H. Johannson, A. Kaasch, M. Kitzmann, M. Koch, K. Kuitto, S. Kuivalainen, Z. Li, E.V. Lomeli, N. Meer, N. Morel, K. Nakray, C. Needham, T. Newburn, L. Panico, T. Papadopoulos, N. Pleace, T. Reeskens, E. Righard, A. Roumpakis, M.A. Schoyen, C.B. Solano, M. Spang, A. Vlachantoni, Y. Yang

Improve services for children and youth with new concepts, different perspectives, and up-to-date information! How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children: For Better or for Worse? explores the positive and negative impacts of social institutions on child and adolescent well-being. Experts in the fields of social work and child welfare provide a broad perspective on how to improve outcomes for children and adolescents who receive institutional services either directly or indirectly. This book contains innovative strategies for reducing the negative outlook for children and families in shelters, foster homes, and residential treatment centers. This book offers improvements for care services at such locations as: residential institutions state custody and foster homes schools youth development organizations urban public housing developments homeless shelters In How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children, you'll discover current case studies that show how certain groupssuch as minorities and economically challenged children and familiesare stigmatized by the current child welfare system. You'll also find new evidence of the detrimental effects that can occur as a result of institutionalization and the need to find alternatives to removing children and adolescents from family-style environments. This book contains tables to clarify the findings of these case studies, references to further your reading, and detailed descriptions of plans and programs that you can implement in your own social work practice. How Institutions are Shaping the Future of Our Children presents new ways to create positive environments for children and adolescents, including: strengths-based approaches to practice with children with severe emotional and behavioral disturbances custody planning for the children of HIV-infected women discipline-specific education for child protection caseworkers creating supportive staff-youth relationships within all institutions multiple family group interventions which help to strengthen homeless families in preparation to transition to permanent housing the School Development Program, Child Development Project, and Comprehensive Quality Programminginterventions for preventing school drop-outs Life Plans for post-institutionalized youth

Contains field-tested techniques to enhance the effectiveness of your local social services! Changing Welfare Services: Case Studies of Local Welfare Reform Programs describes promising programs and practices that have emerged in the United States since the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Using case studies, this reference provides important lessons that will help social service directors and staff to develop strategies that will improve local welfare-to-work services. This casebook focuses on the agencies rather than the welfare population, emphasizing the guiding values of these agencies and the lessons they learned. Changing Welfare Services explores new approaches to service delivery, with emphasis on removing barriers to work force participation and promoting self-sufficiency through support services. The case studies involve programs focused on working with the community by developing partnerships with local organizations to provide better services. This text emphasizes the organizational changessuch as the development of new training programs, merging employment and social service agencies, and restructuring agency programs to foster collaboration between child welfare services and welfare-to-work programsthat were successful strategies used to implement welfare reform. In Changing Welfare Services, you will learn about: the Connections Shuttle and the Guaranteed Ride Home Programtransportation services for welfare-to-work participants the Exempt Provider Training Program trains Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) participants and others to launch and improve their own high-quality child care businesses co-location of support servicessituating mental health and substance abuse services near the social services agency so TANF participants can make a single visit for all necessary services the Family Loan Programhelps low-income families deal with large or unexpected one-time expenses the JobKeeper Hotlineprovides round-the-clock counseling, crisis intervention, and referral services to help participants stay employed and much more! Changing Welfare Services shows how these agencies discovered new ways to serve the needs of low-income residents and offers you a variety of inventive techniques for improving your own agency's support for welfare recipients. Enhanced with tables, figures, and appendixes, this practitioner-oriented casebook is a much-needed complement to the many quantitative studies of the welfare population. This book is a valuable resource for state and local human service administrators and staff, policymakers, and university faculty and students of public policy.

The provision and management of social housing for those who are unable to access the housing market is essential to the maintenance of the fabric of society. The social housing industry is vast and still growing. There are very few countries in the world where some form of subsidised housing does not exist, and the total number of social homes is likely to grow worldwide, as are the challenges of the sector. Paul Reeves takes a people-centred approach to the subject, describing the themes that have run through provision of social housing from the first philanthropic industrialists in the 19th Century though to the increasingly complex mixture of ownerships and tenures in the present day. The management of housing forms a key part of the book, with an emphasis on the practical aspects of tenant participation and multi-agency working. The book is ideal for students of housing and social policy, and for housing professionals aiming to obtain qualifications and wanting a broad understanding of the social housing sector.

This book delves into issues at the heart of government. Its sharp analysis of the unique Nordic welfare system provides urgent lessons for governments and societies across the globe.
Welfare programs and institutions tend to be analyzed as instrumental arrangements, overlooking the fact that welfare programs are essentially expressions of moral conceptions and values. This book recognizes this distinction and offers analyses, perspectives and interpretations of the normative foundation of the 'Nordic welfare state model'.
The authors examine the main normative principles in this model, exploring their origins and the relationship between them. Paying particular attention to the principles of 'universalism', 'public responsibility for welfare', and 'work for all', they consider their significance for current welfare policy and question whether external economic and ideological pressures are threatening these principles. The book is divided into three clear parts:
*Part I considers the historical trajectories behind the Nordic welfare model
*Part II looks more specifically on normative tensions and dilemmas in current welfare policies with a focus on women friendly welfare, attitudes to basic income and alcohol and drug misuse
*Part III focuses on the possible change in the normative foundation of the Nordic welfare states
This book will be essential reading for researchers and students of the welfare state and also to those in the fields of social policy, comparative politics and political economy.

Since the late 1980s welfare policies in France and the United States have increasingly been shaped by a strong emphasis on citizens' obligations to work and be independent, and a weakening of entitlements to income maintenance. Throughout the advanced industrialized nations, welfare reforms incorporate work-oriented measures such as financial incentives, insertion contracts, training, and requirements to search for and accept jobs. The evidence in this volume suggests that while the details may vary, welfare reforms in France and the United States have more in common than is often acknowledged. "Welfare Reform" provides an in-depth analysis of the development and structure of modern welfare programs and how they function. The dynamics of welfare reform are illuminated by focusing on two programs: the Revenu Minimum d'Insertion in France and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families in the United States. Taking various analytic approaches, contributors examine the relations between poverty and work, how U.S. and French models of income support have been transformed in recent times, the relative impacts of economic growth and policy reforms on rates of welfare participation, and what happens to recipients who leave the welfare rolls. "Welfare Reform" will help researchers and policymakers gain perspective on where they are headed and how best to get there as they journey down the highway of welfare reform. Neil Gilbert is Chernin Professor of Social Welfare at the School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, and co-director of the Center for Child and Youth Policy (CCYP). His numerous publications include 25 books and over 100 articles that have appeared in "The Public Interest, Society, Commentary," and other leading academic journals. Antoine Parent is associate professor of economics at the University of Paris 8, associate researcher at MATISSE, University of Paris 1--Sorbonne, and research program manager at the Research Division of the French Ministry of Social Affairs.

Examine the pros and cons of nontraditional adoption! Welcome Home! An International and Nontraditional Adoption Reader is an essential guide to the process, pros, and cons of adopting children from outside the United States, with special needs, and/or from a different racial/cultural background. The book documents every aspect of the adoption procedurefrom working with facilitators, adoption agencies, and attorneys to mixed reactions over a child's possible loss of heritage as the result of a transracial or multicultural adoption. Parents and adoptees offer unique, firsthand perspectives on the cautions and benefits of nontraditional adoption. Americans adopted more than 20,000 children from other countries in 2001, a number that reflects humanitarian motives, the desire to adopt a child from a specific country, and/or frustration with the domestic adoption system. Including a foreword by United States Representative Ted Strickland, Welcome Home! is a practical resource for anyone thinking of establishing a family or adding to their own. The book provides insight into the adoption process, open adoption, biracial adoption, adopting a special needs child, cultural attitudes, and how to handle an adopted child's questions in later years. It also addresses specific adoption issues, including: how to verify an agency's credentials; how an agency negotiates with the birth mother; state and country laws and practices; tax benefits; and expenses, including legal and medical costs; and includes research findings on the Northeast-Northwest Collaborative Adoption Projects (N2CAP) Welcome Home! tells the stories of: Naomi and Fred, an intermarried couple (she's Jewish, he's not) who adopted a Greek baby in 1962 Tina and Lee, a lesbian couple, who adopted a baby from China Marianne, a professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Lund in Sweden, who adopted babies from Iran and Thailandseveral years after her divorce Pamela, a divorced mother of four biological children who has adopted babies from Viet Nam and China All of her biological children MildredPamela's mother and the children's grandmother Karen, adoptive mother and national chairperson for Families for Russian and Ukrainian adoption (FRUA) William, adoptive father of miracle sisters from Romania and many more! Welcome Home! is an invaluable source of unusual insight for psychologists, psychiatrists, marriage and family therapists, adoption agencies, counselors, social workers, attorneys, physicians, academics, and, of course, anyone considering adoption.

Exhibiting the Archive examines the role that exhibition plays in archives and analyses the impact they are understood to have on how users and visitors experience the archive. Drawing on research conducted in Europe, North America and Australia, the book analyses the key theoretical and social influences on exhibition-making in archives today and discusses the role of exhibitions in the archives of tomorrow. This is the first in-depth study to consider exhibition as more than outreach or advocacy: it frames exhibition as an encounter with archives and with people, and interprets it as a mechanism for change within the archive. Against a backdrop of increasing digital activity, Lester asks what experience within the physical space of the archive could be. Drawing on ideas of spatiality and embodiment, as well as social justice and activism, Lester considers the role of exhibitions within the physical archive and the part they can play in reshaping how experience is understood to happen within it. Exhibiting the Archive offers a new perspective on the archive that will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of archives and records. The discussions of cutting-edge practice offer new insights into how exhibitions are conceived and made, and will therefore be of interest to practitioners around the world.

Contents:
Volume One: Welfare States and Societies in the Making
Part One

1. Asa Briggs (1984), 'The Welfare State in Historical Perspective', in (1985) The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs, Vol. 2, Brighton: The Harvester Press, pp. 177-211.
2. Christopher Pierson (1991), 'Origins and Development of the Welfare State 1880 Beyond the Welfare State? The New Political Economy of Welfare, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 102-140.
3. Jeremy Bentham (1789), An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, New York: Hafner, 1948, pp. 125 - 154.
4. Tom Paine (1791), 'Of Society and Civilization', Rights of Man, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969, pp. 357
5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848), 'Socialist and Communist Literature', Manifesto of the Communist Party, Edinburgh: Socialist Labour Press, 1909, pp. 429
6. John Stuart Mill (1859) 'Of the Limits of Society over the Individual', On Liberty, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 83-101.
7. De Toqueville, 'Government of the Democracy in America', Democracy in America, Everyman Edition, pp. 199-202.
8. De Toqueville, 'What are the Real Advantages which American Society Derives from a Democratic Government', Democracy in America, Everyman Edition, pp. 237-253.
9. Hubert Kiesewetter (1991), 'Competition for Wealth and Power: The Growing Rivalry between Industrial Britain and Industrial Germany 1815 Journal or European Economic History, 20: 2, pp. 271-299.
10. Alan Kidd (1999), 'The State and Pauperism' in State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England, Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 8-64.
11. Charles Dickens, Hard Times, (Ch 4)
12. William Booth (1976), 'Why Darkest England?' in P Keating (ed), Into Unknown England, Fontana (pp: 141-158).
Part Two
13. Helen Bosanquet (1973), 'The Poor Law and Local Government' in Social Work in London 1869-1912, Harvester Press. (Ch XIII, pp: 266-300.)
14. S and B Webb (1911), 'The Moral Factor', in The Prevention of Destitution, Longman Green (Ch X, pp: 293
15. J Tampke (1981), 'Bismark's Social Legislation: A Genuine Breakthrough?' in W J Mommsen (Ed), The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850-1950, Croom Helm (Ch 4, pp: 71-83)
16. E P Hennock (1981), 'The Origins of British National Insurance and the German Precedent 1880 The Emergence of the Welfare State in Britain and Germany 1850-1950, Croom Helm (Ch 5, pp: 84)
17. Eve Rosenhaft (1994), 'The historical development of German social policy' in J Clasen and R Freeman (eds.), Social Policy in Germany, Harvester Wheatsheaf (Ch 1: pp: 21-40)
18. Werner Usdorf (1998), 'Global Topographies: The Spiritual, the Social and the Geographical in the Missionary Movement from the West', Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp: 591-604.
19. Anna S Orloff (1988), 'The Political Origins of America's Belated Welfare State' in Weir, Orloff and Skocpol, (eds.), The politics of Social Policy in the United States, Princeton University Press (CH. 1, pp: 37)
20. Michael Rose (2001), The secular faith of the social settlements 'If Christ came to Chicago' in Ruth Gilchrist and Tony Jeffs (eds.), Settlements, Social Change and Community Action, Jessica Kingsley (pp: 18)
21. Political and Economic Planning (1937), Report on the British Social Services, (Summary and Conclusions, pp: 9)
22. Mutsuko Takahashi (1997), The Emergence of Welfare Society in Japan, Avebury (Ch. 2, Welfare policy in Japan before 1945, pp: 33)
23. Richard M Titmuss (1957), 'War and social Policy' in Essays on 'The Welfare State', George Allen and Unwin, (CH. 4, pp: 75)
24. C Barnett (1986), 'The Dream of New Jerusalem' in Audit of War, Macmillan (Ch 1, pp: 11)
25. William Temple (1942), 'Appendix', Christianity and Social Order, Penguin, (pp: 75-90.)
26. William Beveridge, (1942) Cm. 6404, Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services, HMSO (Part I), pp: 5-20.

Volume Two: The Zenith of Western Welfare State Systems

27. Gunnar Myrdal (1972), 'The place of values in social policy', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 1. No. 1, pp: 1-14)
28. F A Hayek (1973), 'The Danger of Unlimited Government'. In Economic Freedom and Representative Government, (4th Wincott Memorial Lecture) Occasional Paper 39, IEA, London (Ch II, pp: 9)
29. Rodney Lowe (1990), 'The Second World War, Consensus and the Foundation of the Welfare State, Twentieth Century British History, (Vol. 1, No 2, pp: 152)
30. Alan Peacock (1991), 'Welfare Philosophies and Welfare Finance' in T Wilson and D Wilson, The State and Social Welfare, Longman (pp: 37)
31. R M Titmuss (1987), 'Social Welfare and the Art of Giving' in B Abel Smith and K Titmuss (Eds.), The Philosophy of Welfare, Allen and Unwin (pp: 113)
32. Jose Harris (1991), 'Enterprise and the Welfare State', in Gourvish and O'Day (Eds.), Britain since 1945, Macmillan (pp: 39)
33. Pierre Laroque (1969), 'Social Security in France' in S. Jenkins (Ed.), Social Security in International Perspective, Columbia University Press, pp. 171-189.
34. Henning Fris (1969), 'Issues in Social Security in Denmark', in S. Jenkins (Ed.), Social Security in International Perspective, Columbia University Press. (Ch. 5), pp. 129-150.
35. Peter Baldwin (1990), 'The Failure of the Solidaristic Welfare State', in The Politics of Social Solidarity, Cambridge University Press (pp: 158)
36. Martin Seelib-Kaise (1995), 'The Development of Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in Germany and Japan', Social Policy and Administration, (Vol. 29, No. 3, pp: 269)
37. R Titmuss (1987), 'The Social Division of Welfare', in B Abel Smith and K Titmuss (Eds.), The Philosophy of Welfare, Allen and Unwin (pp: 39)
38. Arthur Seldon (1964), 'Welfare by Choice' in Rebirth of Britain, Pan, (Ch. 11, pp: 153)
39. Z Ferge (1979), 'The Emergence of Social Policy' in A Society in the Making: Hungarian Social and Societal Policy, Penguin, (pp: 50)
40. W G Runciman (1966), 'Reform and its Limits' in Relative Deprivation and Social Justice, Routledge and Kegan Paul, (Ch. XIV, pp: 285)
41. Brian Abel-Smith (1958), 'Whose Welfare State?' in N Mackenzie (Ed.), Conviction, Macgibbon and Kee, (pp: 55)
42. Peter Townsend (1962), 'The Meaning of Poverty', British Journal of Sociology (Vol. 13, pp: 212)
43. Jack Wiseman (1991), 'The Welfare State: A Public Choice Perspective' in Thomas Wilson and Dorothy Wilson (Eds.), The State and Social Welfare, Longman, (Ch. 3, pp: 55)
44. Frances Fox Piven and R Cloward (1971), 'The Welfare Explosion of the 1960s' in Regulating the Poor, Vintage, (pp: 183)
45. Theda Skocpol (1988), 'The Limits of the New Deal System and the Roots of Contemporary Welfare Dilemmas', in Weir, Orloff and Skocpol, (eds.), The politics of Social Policy in the United States, Princeton University Press (CH. 8, pp: 293)
46. Claus Offë (1984), 'Social policy and the theory of the state' in J Keane (Ed.), Contradictions of the Welfare State, Hutchinson, (Ch. 3, pp: 88)

Volume Three: Crisis of the Welfare States

47. Catherine J Jones (1980), 'Dismantling the British Welfare State The Hong Kong Journal of Social Work, (Vol. XIV, No. 2, pp: 28)
48. Digby Anderson (1981) 'Breaking the Spell of the Welfare State' in Digby Anderson, June Lait and David Marsland, Breaking the Spell of the Welfare State, Social Affairs Unit (Ch 2: pp: 11)
49. Peter Townsend, Margaret Whitehead, and Nick Davidson, (1992), 'Introduction to Inequalities in Health', Inequalities in Health, Penguin, pp: 1-27.
50. Jennifer Somerville, (1992), 'The New Right and family politics', Economy and Society, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp: 93-128.
51. Desmond S King, (1987), 'The state and the social structures of welfare in advanced industrial democracies', Theory ad Society, Vol. 16, pp: 841-868.
52. Desmond S King, (1988), 'New Right Ideology, Welfare State Form, and Citizenship: A Comment on Conservative Capitalism, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 30, pp: 793-799.
53. Ken Judge (1987), 'The British Welfare State in Transition', in Friedmann, R R, Gilbert, N and Sherer, M (Eds.) (1987), Modern Welfare States: A Comparative View of Trends and Prospects, Brighton, Wheatsheaf. pp: 1-43.
54. Nathan Glazer (1988), 'The American Welfare State: Incomplete or Different?' in The Limits of Social Policy, Harvard University Press (Ch. 10, pp: 168)
55. Christopher Pierson, (1991), 'Beyond the Welfare State?' and 'Defending the Welfare State', in Pierson, C, Beyond the Welfare State? The New political Economy of Welfare, Cambridge, Polity Press. pp: 179-222.
56. Mary McIntosh, (1981), 'Feminism and Social Policy', Critical Social Policy, Vol. 1, pp: 32-42.
57. Charles Murray, (1982), 'The Two Wars against Poverty', The Public Interest, No. 69, pp: 4-16.
58. Rudolf Klein (1995), 'Priorities and rationing: pragmatism or principles?', BMJ, Vol. 311: pp: 761-762 (Editorial).
59. Gerald F Gauss (1998), 'Why All Welfare States (Including Laissez-faire Ones) Are Unreasonable', Social Philosophy and Policy, Vol. 15, No: 2.
60. Commission on Social Justice (1994), 'What is Social Justice' in Social Justice: Strategies for National Renewal, Vintage (Introduction, pp: 17)
61. M Grazia Rossilli (1999), 'The European Union's policy on the equality of women', Feminist Studies, Spring.
62. Paul Pierson (1996), 'The New Politics of The Welfare State', World Politics, (Vol. 48), pp. 143-179.
63. Zsuzsa Ferge (1997), 'The Changed welfare Paradigm: The Individualization of the Social', Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp: 20-44.
64. Schulz B H (2000), 'Globalisation, unification and the German Welfare State', International Social Science Journal, Vol. 163: pp: 39-50.
65. George, V, Stathopoulos, P and Garcés, J (1999), 'Squaring the welfare circle and government ideology: Greece and Spain in the 1990s', International Social Security Review, Vol. 52, No. 4, pp: 47-67.
66. Powell, M and Hewitt, M (1998), 'The End of the Welfare State?', Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp: 1-13.

Volume Four: Welfare Futures

67. Stephan Leibfried (2000), 'National Welfare States, European Integration and Globalization: A perspective for the Next Century', Social Policy and Administration, (Vol. 34, No. 1, pp: 22)
68. Robert D Putnam, 'Bowling Alone: America's declining social capital', Journal of Democracy, (Vol. 6(1), pp: 65-78).
69. Peter Baldwin (1996), 'Can we Define a European Welfare State Model?' in Bent Greve (Ed), Comparative Welfare Systems: The Scandinavian Model in a Period of Change, Macmillan.
70. John Veit-Wilson (2000), 'States of Welfare: A Conceptual Challenge', Social Policy and Administration, (Vol. 34, No. 1, pp: 1)
71. Greg Martin (2001), 'Social movements, welfare and social policy: a critical analysis', Critical Social Policy, (Vol. 21(3), pp: 361)
72. Robert E Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels and Henk-Jan Dirven (1999), The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Summarised in Pierson, C and Castles, D G (2000), The Welfare State Reader, Cambridge, Polity Press. pp: 170-189.
73. Julia Twigg (2002), 'The Body in Social Policy: Mapping a Territory', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 31, Part 3, pp: 421
74. Paul Hirst (1999), 'Associationist Welfare: a reply to Marc Stears', Economy and Society, (Vol. 28, No. 4, pp: 590)
75. Fiona Williams (1999), 'Good-enough Principles for Welfare', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 28, Part 4, pp: 667
76. Peter Taylor-Gooby (1994), 'Postmodernism and Social Policy: A Great Leap Backwards', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 23, Part 3, pp: 385)
77. Xinping Guan (2001), 'Globalization, Inequality and Social Policy: China on the Threshold of Entry into the World Trade Organization', Social Policy and Administration, (Vol. 35, Issue 3, pp: 242)
78. David Stoez (2002), 'The American Welfare State at Twilight', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 31, Part 3, pp: 487)
79. Claire Ungerson (2000), 'Thinking about the Production and Consumption of Long-term Care in Britain: Does Gender Still Matter?', Journal of Social Policy, (Vol. 29, Part 4, pp: 623)
80. John Barry and Brian Doherty (2002), 'The Greens and Social Policy: Movements, Politics, Practice?' in Michael Cahill and Tony Fitzpatrick (Eds.), Environmental Issues and Social Welfare, Blackwell. (Ch. 9, pp: 119)
81. Tamsin Wilson (1995), 'Subject to Control: Lesbians and the State', in Lesbian Studies: Setting an Agenda, Routledge (Ch. 9, pp: 181)
82. Anthony Giddens (2002), 'What Kind of Society Should Britain Become?', in Where Now for New Labour, Polity (Ch. 4, pp: 38)
83. Stephen Rathgeb Smith and Daniel J Evans (2001), 'Privatization, Devolution and the Welfare State: Rethinking the Prevailing Wisdom' (forthcoming) in Bo Rothstein and Sven Steinmo, Restructuring Politics: Institutional Challenges of Modern Welfare States.
84. Peter Taylor-Gooby (2001), 'Sustaining state welfare in hard times: who will foot the bill?', Journal of European Social Policy, (Vol. 11(2), pp: 133)
85. Peng, I (2000), 'A Fresh Look at the Japanese Welfare State', Social Policy and Administration, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp: 87-114.
86. Tony Fitzpatrick (2002), 'In Search of a Welfare Democracy', Social Policy and Society, (Vol. 1, Part 1, pp: 11)
87. Rudolf Klein and Anne-Marie Rafferty (1999), 'Rorschach Politics: Tony Blair and the Third Way', The American Prospect, (Vol. 10, Issue 45, July)
88. Nicholas Deakin (2002), 'Public-Private Partnerships, Public Management Review, Vol. 4, Issue, 2, pp: 133
89. Christopher Pierson (1998), 'Contemporary Challenges to Welfare State Development', Political Studies, (Vol. XLVI, pp: 777-794)

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