Elgar Research Agendasoutline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are give n the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Forward-looking and innovative, Elgar Research Agendas are an essential resource for PhD students, scholars and anybody who wants to be at the forefront of research. This timely book utilises the specialised insights and experiences of those who have carried out research on different aspects of social welfare law and policy to construct an innovative post-Brexit and post-Covid 19 research agenda that identifies what needs to be studied and how this should be carried out. Embracing not only social welfare law but also social welfare policy, practice and impact, expert contributors consider major areas of non-economic law, such as asylum and immigration law, health law, social care law, social work and child welfare law, social security law, and issues involving social rights. Individual chapters cover branches of social welfare law, four areas of social welfare policy, four distinctive methodological approaches, and three contemporary developments. They reflect a wide-ranging set of substantive concerns and methodological approaches and, taken together, comprise a challenging but non-prescriptive research agenda. This Research Agenda will be a key resource for socio-legal researchers contemplating research on social welfare law and policy, as well as research councils, government departments and charitable bodies that fund research on social welfare law and policy.

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The book subjects the largely hidden phenomenon of benefit sanctions in the UK to sustained examination and critique. It comprises twelve chapters dealing with the terms 'cruel', 'inhuman' and 'degrading' that are used as a benchmark for assessing benefit sanctions; benefit sanctions as a matter of public concern; the historical development of benefit sanctions in the UK; changes in the scope and severity of benefit sanctions; conditionality and the changing relationship between the citizen and the state; the impact and effectiveness of benefit sanctions; benefit sanctions and administrative justice; the role of law in protecting the right to a social minimum; a comparison of benefit sanctions with court fines; benefit sanctions and the rule of law; and what, if anything, can be done about benefit sanctions. Each chapter ends with a paragraph that attempts to highlight the most salient points in that chapter, and the book ends with a short conclusion in which benefit sanctions are assessed against the chosen benchmark.

"Discourse, Power and Justice" is a distinctive and theoretically informed, empirical study of the administration of the Scottish prison system. It is based on extensive research and combines theoretical innovation with detailed empirical evidence. The book is located at a confluence of two academic sub-disciplines and their associated literature, socio-legal studies of justice and the sociology of knowledge, which are combined to produce a novel theoretical framework. The authors focus on the activities of those who manage the prison system. They identify the most important social actors in the prison system, located both historically and comparatively, and examine their characteristic forms of discourse. A number of crucial areas of decision-making are analyzed in depth including decisions about the initial classification of prisoners, transfers around the system and the allocation of prisoners to different forms of work. A major focus of the book is on the different forms and mechanisms of accountability and the book concludes with an analysis of recent policy changes. Adler has published "Parential Choice and Educational Policy" (Ediburgh University Press, 1989) and "Justice Di

This memoir portrays the dreadful experiences of Camillo Adler and his family as Austrian refugees in France following the outbreak of WWII. Despite his suffering in internment camps, Adler feels bound by honor and duty to fight against the brutal Nazi regime. He enlists into the French Foreign Legion, enduring its rigors of harsh basic training in Algeria and Morocco and eventually returns home after France's swift surrender to Germany in the summer of 1940. To escape the Holocaust during the gruesome German occupation, the family with its two small children flees in a precarious journey to Switzerland. The book vividly depicts life in the Swiss refugee camps and the family's eventual unification. Long after Camillo Adler's death in 1985, his son Michel, the translator, discovered Camillo Adler's original German manuscripts, written in 1944. Beyond an account of events, his story is an intimate window into the conditions of the period, the ramifications of human action and inaction and into the thought-world of the many Jewish refugees during that tumultuous time.

Poplar Street is a lively book about growing up in a multi-generational Catholic household in the mid-century American South. Raised in a family whose ancestors helped settle Memphis, Tennessee, Adrienne Adler Downs and Michele Adler share stories about a father who needed adult supervision, a take-no-prisoners grandmother who cheerfully admitted she married for the money, and a raucous celebration that resulted in their Poplar Street house being unofficially blacklisted by the officials of a local men's college. Through it all was a stoic grandfather, a Rosary-praying mother, a ghost or two, a host of convivial cousins, and a Grand-Central-Station atmosphere that kept the whole family in a state of high alert. "The mystery of family bonds can never be understood, only appreciated," the authors write in Poplar Street's preface. Readers will say the same thing about the book.

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This book comprises a definitive collection of papers on administrative justice, written by a set of very distinguished contributors. It is divided into five parts, each of which contains articles on a particular aspect of administrative justice. Part 1 deals with the impact of 'contextual changes' on administrative justice and considers the implications of changes in governance and public administration, management and service delivery, information technology, audit and accounting, and human rights for administrative justice. Part 2 looks at conceptual issues and describes a number of competing approaches to administrative justice. Part 3 discusses the application of administrative justice principles to private law disputes, while Part 4 examines the distinctive characteristics of administrative justice in three other jurisdictions. Part 5 focuses on the current developments in administrative justice, with a conclusion that deals with legislative and policy developments in the UK. The general approach of the book is socio-legal and interdisciplinary. The chapters adopt a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including those derived from political science, public policy, social policy, accounting, and information technology, as well as from law. Included is a section titled "Comparative Perspectives on Administrative Justice," with comparative analyses of Australia, Scandinavia, and continental Europe. The book will be of interest to lawyers - particularly those with interests in administrative law - and to social scientists - particularly those with interests in public administration, public policy, and public management.

The Delphi Method is an exercise in group communication. It is intended to enhance informed decision-making by enabling decision makers to plan based on a wide reservoir of knowledge, experience and expertise in a systematic manner. The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 contains chapters on theoretical, methodological and practical issues - inclusing computerisation - which are raised by the Delphi Method while Part 2 consists of a series of case studies which illustrate the application fo the Delphi Method to a range of problems in social policy and public health. The case studies show how the Delphi Method has been used to study furture trends in mental health and mental health care, services for the elderly, accidents, family planning services, the implications of advances in biomedical and behavioural research and the administration of social security.

Originally printed in 1922, this is the Record of Service of the Jewish race in the British and Empire Forces during the Great War.As well as an outline story of the service of British Jewry it includes:- a Roll of Honour of the Dead, showing their unit, date of death, and home addess; records of honours and awards including citations for Military Crosses; Distinguished Conduct Medals; a nominal roll of Jews serving in His Majesty's Forces.On a Regiment by Regiment basis, a photographic record of the fallen and their memorials.Also including group photographs.

Originally printed in 1922, this is the Record of Service of the Jewish race in the British and Empire Forces during the Great War.As well as an outline story of the service of British Jewry it includes:- a Roll of Honour of the Dead, showing their unit, date of death, and home addess; records of honours and awards including citations for Military Crosses; Distinguished Conduct Medals; a nominal roll of Jews serving in His Majesty's Forces.On a Regiment by Regiment basis, a photographic record of the fallen and their memorials.Also including group photographs.