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“lucy willmott”

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  • The Honest Politician’s Guide to Prisons and Probation

    by Roy D. King, Lucy Willmott ...
    Through a comprehensive analysis of legislative and organisational changes and interviews with all the key players, The Honest Politician’s Guide to Prisons and Probation provides an authoritative account of the crisis which has gradually engulfed the prison and probation services since 1991. Setting out the nature and extent of the crisis, King and Willmott show how the Woolf agenda was ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

    The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate political insider

    by Ian Dunt ...
    Why do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others miserably fail? What is a 'special adviser' and how did they take over British political life? And why is the House of Lords more functional than most people think?Most of us have a sense that our political system doesn't seem to work, but struggle to articulate exactly why. And for good reason: our political and financial ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Five Giants [New Edition]

    A Biography of the Welfare State

    by Nicholas Timmins ...
    A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEARA LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning history of the British Welfare State –now fully revised and updated for the 21st Century.‘A masterpiece’ Sunday TimesGiant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. Giant Idleness.These were the Five Giants that loomed over the post-war reconstruction... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Everybody's Hacked Off

    Why We Don't Have the Press we Deserve and What to Do About It

    by Brian Cathcart, Hugh Grant ...
    Series series Penguin Specials
    A brilliantly written, concise and accessible summary of the Leveson inquiry and a convincing argument for why we need press reform from an expert on the subject, with an introduction by Hugh Grant, a Hacked Off campaigner, recent witness at the Leveson inquiry and presenter of the Channel 4 documentary Taking on the Tabloids.When most of the British press conspired to cover up the phone-hacking ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Held in contempt

    What’s wrong with the House of Commons?

    by Hannah White ...
    The House of Commons is increasingly held in contempt by the British public. From attending parties during the Covid-19 lockdown to taking payment for lobbying, MPs undermine their credibility by acting as if the rules they set for others should not apply to them. Still far from representative of the country they govern from the ancient and crumbling Palace of Westminster, MPs appear detached from ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Out of Sight, Out of Mind

    Why Britain's Prisons Are Failing

    by John Podmore ...
    At the heart of his book is his conclusion that prison simply does not work, failing on three fundamental levels. The view of the popular media is that when prisoners are locked up they cannot commit crime. This is not true. Podmore shows how crime actually proliferates in prison, how serious organised crime is allowed to flourish there through bad management, and how the UK's prisons are a multi ... Read more

    $13.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Industrial Efficiency and State Intervention

    Labour 1939-1951

    by Dr Nick Tiratsoo, Nick Tiratsoo, Jim Tomlinson ...
    Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson describe and assess the Labour Party's development of a policy of improving industrial efficiency. They concentrate on the debates and initiatives of the wartime period and subsequent implementation of policy under Attlee. The book modifies existing historiography in two ways - it shows that the Labour Party of 1945-51 was concerned mainly with industrial ... Read more

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  • OCR GCSE (9–1) Citizenship Studies

    by Steve Johnson, Graeme Roffe ...
    An OCR endorsed textbook.Association for Citizenship Teaching Quality Mark resource.Encourage students of all abilities to develop an enthusiastic interest in contemporary UK society with knowledge-boosting activities and assessment support for the changed content and assessment criteria; produced by the leading Citizenship publisher and OCR's Publishing Partner.- Equip students with the knowledge ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Prison Architecture

    by Leslie Fairweather, Sean McConville ...
    Current and future prison designs are examined in this book, within the government's prison building programme, and the confines of current penal philosophies and legislation. America has led the way in prison design, with two main types of architecture predominating: radial layouts (outside cells with windows) and linear blocks (inside cells with grilles). Now, 'new' generation prisons (central ... Read more

    $224.99 USD

  • Shadow State

    Inside the Secret Companies that Run Britain

    by Alan White ...
    Every year the British government spends £80 billion outsourcing public services. Today, private companies are responsible for fulfilling some of the most sensitive and important roles of the state – running prisons and providing healthcare, transport, legal aid, even child protection. These organizations have been handed enormous amounts of power and yet for the most part they operate with no ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Developing Early Childhood Services: Past, Present And Future

    by Peter Baldock ...
    Assisting readers to understand how early years services have been transformed and to evaluate that process and to prepare for the future. ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • A Dictionary of Criminal Justice

    by Peter Joyce, Neil Wain ...
    A Dictionary of Criminal Justice is the only dictionary that deals with criminal justice from a UK perspective, and in doing so provides a comprehensive guide to all aspects of the British criminal justice system, including its historical context and contemporary operations.The first three sections of the book explore in turn key definitions, key pieces of legislation and key documents that have ... Read more

    $62.99 USD