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Risk and social welfare / Jason L. Powell and Azrini Wahidin, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Social issues, justice and status series.
- Social issues, justice and status series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare.
- Social policy.
- Risk--Sociological aspects.
- Risk.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (164 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study explores the relationship between risk and social welfare. It looks at the extent to which discourses of risk have replaced 'need' as a key principle of social welfare rationing and provision.
- Contents:
- Introduction : risk and social welfare : a contextual journey / Jason L. Powell and Azrini Wahidin
- 'A conceptual exploration of risk : crime, human security and social welfare' / Gabe Mythen
- Risk and social work / Steve Myers
- Risk and aging / Dawn C. Carr and Glenn W. Muschert
- Risk and crime / Hazel Kemshall
- Risk, government and social policy / Catherine McDonald
- Medicine and risk / John M. Chamberlain
- From risk to trust? Reconfiguring conceptual and trust relations in health and welfare / Jason L. Powell and Azrini Wahidin.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60876-798-1
- OCLC:
- 844347948
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