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Social and Political Contexts of Social Work

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Moral Regulation

Edited by Mark Smith

This byte teases out some of the fundamentally moral questions that continue to perplex us, about life and death, good and evil, and sex and the body.

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The State

Edited by Viviene E. Cree

Through case-study examples this Byte explores individual and social problems that are characterised as moral panics.

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Childhood and Youth

Edited by Gary Clapton

Addresses moralising within discourses of childhood and youth and asks how we might do things differently.

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Gender and Family

Edited by Viviene E. Cree

An insight into some of the central debates and questions about gender and the family, examined through the lens of moral panic.

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Social Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic

International Insights

This book provides an urgent critical exploration of how Social Work can and should respond to the COVID-19 crisis. It examines the ways that social work has responded in different nations across the Global North and Global South.

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