Public management and vulnerability : contextualising change / edited by Gareth David Addidle and Joyce Liddle.

"The book locates the issue of 'vulnerability' into an international context, within public sector reform processes, and goes beyond existing concepts of policing and vulnerability to include multi and intra-agency working. It uncovers many competing and contradictory conceptualisations of the phenomenon and shows how a variety of agencies in different jurisdictions prioritise and operationalise this escalating 21st Century social problem. This collection will appeal to academics, policy makers and practitioners in a wide variety of disciplines such as public management and leadership, criminology, policing, social policy, social work, and business management"-- Provided by publisher.

1 Introduction: Contested Perspectives on Vulnerability: Which Groups Are Vulnerable and Why? -- 2 Beyond Public Services: The Era of New Public Populism -- 3 The Impact of Brexit on Vulnerability: Using a Theoretical Lens of Transnational and Local Linkages -- 4 Vulnerability a Collective or Individual/Agency Issue? Has Vulnerability Replaced Community Safety in the UK and Are We Stigmatising the Individual? -- 5 Responding to Vulnerability in Practice -- Ambulance, Police and Fire and Rescue Services -- 6 Professional Vulnerability in the UK Public Sector: The Social Work Operational Environment -- 7 Virtually Vulnerable: Why Digital Technology Challenges the Fundamental Concepts of Vulnerability and Risk -- 8 Relational Pressure and Policing Vulnerable Populations in China -- 9 UK Immigration Policy: Asylum Seeker and Refugee Vulnerability -- 10 Responding to Ageing Demographics: A Positive View from a Public Administration and Public Policy Perspective -- 11 The Important Voices of Care Experienced People in Relation to Services -- 12 Lesson Drawing for Theory, Policy and Practice: Developing a Future Research Agenda -- Index.

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