Titlebook: Controversies in Policy Research; critical analysis fo Stephanie Petrie Book 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Li

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Policy Contexts, Consequences and Controversiesr to inform rational and consistent decision-making that ensures beneficial outcomes. For example, Torjman (2005) suggests, ‘… the formulation of public policy involves a process of making good decisions - for the public good (p. 18)’. This raises, of course, a number of questions such as who decide

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’Victims’ and European Policy Initiatives: Symbolism or Meaningful Progress?ut when she called Merseyside Police, an officer told her it would be difficult for the force to act and advised her to contact her solicitor. The officer did not ask her husband’s name to add to the force’s incident log, and failed to make checks on the national database. The Independent Police Com

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Stalking - the Portuguese Case: Discursive Constructions of Stalking and Their Implications old fire fighter, worked in the same fire brigade as Sara. José once told Sara that he was in love with her and subsequently pursued her everywhere. He appeared at her college campus and in front of her house. He followed her by car. He sent her hundreds of text messages and mails each week. He wro

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Women in the Criminal Justice System - One Step Forward, More Steps Backd Gough, 2008). Against the backdrop of a growing prison population in many countries including the United States, Australasia and the United Kingdom since the beginning of the 1980s, the numbers of incarcerated females have seen an unprecedented increase, outstripping the percentage rise in the num

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Young British Muslims, Counter-Terrorism and the State: Contesting the Policy Turndamentalists inspired by al-Qaeda in New York in September 2001, Istanbul in November 2003, Madrid in March 2004 and London in July 2005 all serve as reminders of the capability of determined groups to puncture the myth that the nation state can ensure the security and safety of its citizens. Insofa

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Community Cohesion Policy in a Northern English Town: An Ethnographic Approachlitically engaged in their local community?’ are not generally explored using ethnography as a research method. This is because policy research is often guided by pre-set research questions and undertaken within specific timescales. Ethnography, on the other hand, rests on the ethnographer’s ethical

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Lone Parents and ‘Welfare to Work’ Policies: A Participatory Approach, Canada and the United Kingdom. These policies aim to ensure the minimal level of citizen well-being states should provide and are broadly concerned with health, education, housing and fiscal benefits. The successive recessions in many affluent complex societies during this period has focussed atte

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The UK Health Trainer Initiative: Critical Contextsry resources at the researcher’s disposal, for example - data, theory and opinion. This makes for a more engaging and multi-faceted exploration though it can feel a little daunting. Focusing analysis on the contents of policies alone may seem to remove some of this complexity but it can leave the re