International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy: Volume 35 Issue 5/6

Payment by results: the materialist reconstruction of criminal justice

Philip Whitehead

The criminal justice system in England and Wales is being reconstructed on a new operating platform of which Payment by Results (PbR) is the material signifier. This critical…

Marriage and family structures in the rural Punjab: A shift from conservative to contemporary patterns

Ayesha Farooq, Ashraf Khan Kayani, Khalil Ahmad

The purpose of this paper is to look into marriage patterns and family structure and changes therein over the period of 50 years. Reasons for change in marriage patterns are also…

Pre-school practitioners, child poverty and social justice

Donald Simpson, Eunice Lumsden, Rory McDowall Clark

Several ideas exist about social justice and how inequalities can be tackled to help families and children in poverty. The Coalition government released the UK’s first Child…

Striving for job security: The lived experience of employment informality among educated youth in Egypt

Ghada Barsoum

The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, it seeks to voice the concerns of educated youth in Egypt as they describe their work options and preferences. Second, it seeks to…

Welfare reform and the street level bureaucrat in homelessness services

Sarah Louise Alden

Lipsky’s street level bureaucrat conceptual framework is employed to assist in understanding the ways in which statutory frontline homelessness practitioners are engaging with the…

Perceptions of irregular immigrants’ participation in undeclared work in the United Kingdom from a social trust perspective

Anett Hodosi

There is a significant body of work dealing with the topic of undeclared work and irregular immigrants. However, relatively little is understood about the British general public’s…

“We don’t want school bags”: Discourses on corporate social responsibility in Egypt and the challenges of a new practice in a complex setting

Ghada Barsoum, Sara Refaat

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the competing and overlapping discourses on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Egypt, a setting with a serious knowledge gap on…

The social assistance policy in urban China: a critical review

Haomiao Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to assess China’s urban social assistance policy, mainly by examining the findings of in-depth interviews with urban Dibao recipients in Chengdu about…

Caring relationships and efficient social care provision: Can an ethic of care provide a better foundation for responding to care needs in later life?

Sue Hollinrake, Will Thomas

– The purpose of this paper is to understand the nature of support that helps older people continue living in their own homes for as long as they wish to.