... with the growth of the night-time economy of cities and towns in the United Kingdom since 1987. It also discusses recent policy interventions in respect of licensing hours, regulation and ‘liberalisation’. It argues that a failure to contextualise properly ‘binge drinking’ within significant shifts in leisure...

...In the ten years of New Labour under Tony Blair, law and order policy in the United Kingdom was characterised by radical extensions of summary powers to police and local authorities to ‘take on the wrongdoers’ and to tackle ‘anti-social behaviour’. The Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO...

...The promotion of respect in society, like the concern about anti-social behaviour, engages with issues that on the one hand are relatively small or insignificant — dropping litter or not saying ‘thank you’, for example. The ‘ASBO (Anti-Social Behaviour Order) agenda’ in the United Kingdom has been...

... Kerr Lord Rawnsley Andrew social services tax Conservatives House of Lords Letts Quentin social policy Robert Pinker United Kingdom Brexit Article 50 Lisbon Treaty funding health services social care services European Union ^* This Afterword was completed on 27 July 2017...

...This chapter explores the origins of consumerism – in public services generally and social work specifically – in the Conservative governments' reforms of the public sector in the United Kingdom. It then discusses the way in which New Labour depicts the public sector as locked into its social...

...After its landslide victory in the 1997 general election, the New Labour government published a series of White Papers, Green Papers, and reports setting out its agenda to modernise government and public services in the United Kingdom. The agenda was rooted in the redefinition of the relationship...

...This chapter discusses the neighbourhood impacts of new immigration to the United Kingdom (UK). It aims to show that new immigrants are arriving from a broad range of countries and are also settling in neighbourhoods that have not formerly experienced significant immigrants. The discussion also...

...This book summarises the findings of a study that explored Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) in the United Kingdom and the views and experiences of the three key parties involved — the agencies, the offenders and the victims. It looks at the implementation of ASBOs and their impact...

...This chapter summarises the findings of the research which explored the operation, views and experiences of the relevant agencies in selecting and processing cases of Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) in the United Kingdom. It analyses both the conceptual and practical issues that have arisen...

... holistic model of crime prevention than its predecessor Conservative government had utilised, with the establishment of Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships. This book examines government policy in the United Kingdom in relation to early intervention programmes that aim to support families...

...Knife violence and killings are becoming rampant in London and other cities, which are being highly publicised by the media. Although knife crime has existed for hundreds of years in the United Kingdom, it has now reached a critical mass and, as a result of the media coverage, it is in the face...

... and consequence of early intervention strategies are pitted with theoretical, conceptual and practical problems. This chapter engages with such problems as they specifically relate to the youth justice sphere in the United Kingdom and, by drawing on key sources of evidence in the space available, provides...

...This book raises important policy questions in relation to early intervention strategies and crime prevention work with children, young people and their families in the United Kingdom. In terms of current government policy, early intervention has become firmly embedded under New Labour's...

... section ends by comparing the New Zealand findings with the available data on attitudinal change in the United Kingdom and Australia. Overall, the chapter illustrates that support for employment-related aspects of social citizenship has in many cases diminished, providing some evidence that citizens have...

... that New Zealanders came to accept neoliberal social security reforms and their rationales. Assessing the relevant attitudinal data from the United Kingdom (UK) and Australia at the end of each section finds a high level of coherence in public views towards social security after three decades...

...The 1990s saw a growing preoccupation with high-risk offenders in the United Kingdom, particularly their accurate identification, reliable risk assessment and effective risk management. By the turn of the century, this preoccupation had also extended to young offenders, and included the formalised...

...As a stark example of the difficulties that policy makers will face in the future as Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) develop within youth justice (and elsewhere), this chapter examines the tension and interplay between governance, risk, and human rights in the United Kingdom...

...This chapter looks at the various forms of evidence about the nature, prevalence and trends in problem behaviour as well as offending behaviour in ten children's care homes in the United Kingdom. The sources of data are based on four sets of organisational records: incident records from care staff...

...This chapter describes the experiences, views and perceptions of managers and care staff in the United Kingdom regarding their use of restorative justice (RJ) in managing problem behaviour and offending behaviour in children in residential care. Their views were collated in four main ways...

...This chapter makes a number of observations about the impact of implementing a restorative justice (RJ) approach in ten children's care homes in the United Kingdom and examines issues to be resolved in relation to the practicalities of using this approach in a residential care setting. The cohort...