Building better societies: Promoting Social Justice in a World Falling Apart - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1447332024 ISBN 13: 9781447332022

Verlag: Policy Press, 2017

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This book looks at what is needed to prevent the proliferation of harm and the gradual collapse of civil society. A wide range of expert contributors outline what might help to make better societies and which mechanisms, interventions and evidence are needed when we think about a better society.

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Rowland Atkinson is Chair in Inclusive Societies, in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield. His research crosses urban studies, sociology, geography and criminology and looks at different forms of exclusion and inequality. Among other interests his work has focused on questions of wealth and poverty in societies and the often invisible harms generated by social inequality in urban settings. Rowland lead the first study of gated communities in the UK as well as the first key study of the rich in London and continues to work to connect the lives of the affluent to social problems, he is the author of (with Sarah Blandy) Domestic Fortress.

Dr Lisa Mckenzie is a research fellow at the London School of Economics & Political Science, working as part of the Great British Class Survey Team. Her previous research focused upon the poor working class and her current research interests relate to the precarious and vulnerable nature of particular groups in our society through insecure housing, work, social benefits, health care, and education. She is author of the bestselling Getting by: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain (Policy Press, 2015).

Professor Simon Winlow, is at the Centre for Realist Criminology, Teesside University. He has research expertise in both sociology and criminology and has published widely on violence, criminal markets and cultures, and social, political and economic change.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Policy Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1447332024
• ISBN 13: 9781447332022
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216
• Herausgeber: Atkinson Rowland, Mckenzie Lisa, Winlow Simon
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