Janet Ford
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3820838 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Janet Ford |
| NOMBRES | Janet |
| APELLIDO | Ford |
| FIRMA | FORD J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of York |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 141 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Changes in patient functioning and disability
ClinicalTrials.gov registry: NCT02614261. Registered 25 November 2015
Applying Learner-Centered Principles to Teaching Human Behavior in the Social Environment in a Baccalaureate Program
Changes in the demographics of American undergraduate students must be addressed by changes in delivery of the curriculum. The learner-centered approach to education helps to recognize and integrate student diversity with class exercises and assignments designed to help students meet course learning outcomes. This article applies the American Psychological Association's Learner-Centered Psychological Principles to a BSW course in human behavior i…
Truancy Interventions
Objectives: This article presents a systematic review of the literature on evaluative studies of truancy interventions. Method: Included studies evaluating truancy interventions appearing in peer-reviewed academic journals from 1990 to 2007. Findings: In total, 16 studies were assessed. Eight studies used group comparison designs and eight studies used one-group pretest/posttest designs. Studies varied on sample sizes, definitions of truant behav…
A Note from the Editors
Widening the mortgage safety-net
Despite benign economic conditions, home ownership continues to manifest risk in the form of mortgage arrears and possessions. Since 1995, the policy objective has been to transfer the major responsibility for protecting mortgage payments to the individual and the market. Limited take-up of mortgage payment protection insurance has led to a suggestion that a wider range of insurances and other resources now constitute the safety-net. The article …
Housing advantage? the role of student renting in the constitution of housing biographies in the United Kingdom
Research on young people leaving the parental home has tended to focus most closely on charting and explaining the age at which young people leave, and exploring the incidence of returning after a period of living either ‘semi‐autonomously’ or independently. The majority of these studies have been quantitative and fairly static in approach. This paper develops an approach to the topic that is more qualitative in its orientation and that views hou…
A Note from the Editors
Conceptualising the Contemporary Role of Housing in the Transition to Adult Life in England
This paper uses both survey and qualitative panel data collected from five different case-study areas in England in order to offer a conceptualisation of the contemporary role that housing is playing in the transition to adult life. The data suggest that the types of housing pathway that young people follow are a function of differences in the combination and intensity of three main factors: the ability of young people to plan for and control the…
Failing Home Owners? The Effectiveness of Public and Private Safety-nets
In the context of growing risks and expectations of greater personal responsibility, this paper presents the results of a study of the effectiveness and implications of the new pattern of safety-net provision for mortgagors in Britain which was implemented in October 1995 and which involves both private insurance (MPPI) and public provision (ISMI). The paper focuses primarily on those borrowers most likely to experience the risks associated with …
The Effectiveness and Enforcement of a Teen Curfew Law
This article examines the effect of a teen curfew on juvenile arrest rates and reviews the first year of the curfew's implementation in a city of over 200,000 population. Juvenile arrest rates were compared for three years prior to the curfew's enactment and three years of curfew enforcement. Data related to 377 curfew violations and 83 parent citations issued in 22 police beats during the first year of implementation were analyzed to determine w…
A Pilot Study to Evaluate a Tobacco Diversion Program
By 1998, 42 states had implemented legislation to prohibit the purchase, possession, or use of tobacco by minors, a 24% increase since 1995.1,2 In response, communities have developed tobacco education classes, known as tobacco diversion programs, offered in lieu of, or in addition to, other penalties for youths cited for tobacco use. Despite the proliferation of these programs, little is known about their effect on youths' tobacco use. Since Sep…
Risk and trust
English Government policy is that social protection for mortgagors should be delivered initially through the market (Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance – MPPI). However, expectations of market expansion have not been realised. The paper explores some likely reasons for this, drawing on the emerging critique of welfare markets and the identification of the importance of trust. Data on the MPPI claiming process indicate that borrowers could not …
The Costs of Unsustainable Home Ownership in Britain
This paper examines the costs of unsustainable home ownership in Britain as manifested through mortgage arrears and possessions. It suggests that there are a widely drawn set of costs that have an impact on a range of different actors and institutions, and offers a simple conceptual framework for developing an analysis of such costs. Further, the paper suggests that an examination of these costs has the potential to contribute to some key debates…
A Place in the Country? The Housing Circumstances of Young People in Rural England
The contemporary housing circumstances of the one-fifth of all young people in England between the ages of 16 and 24 who live in rural areas are examined. Although young people are often seen as a key group in wider debates, not least because they so clearly represent the maintenance of the continuity of local people, they are infrequently examined in the research literature. More typically the young are simply ‘tagged on’ to existing studies of …
Owner Occupation, Employment and Welfare
This paper is concerned with the changing relationships between owner occupation,employmentand welfare that increasingly present a challenge to sustainable home ownership. While the discussion centres on the emerging position in Britain, the potential significance of the issues for a number of other countries is noted. The paper first identifies the conditions for sustainable owner occupation and then traces out the impact of three illustrative a…
Self-Employment and Home Ownership after the Enterprise Culture
This paper examines the relationship between patterns of self-employment and patterns of home ownership in England in the 1990s. It does this via a secondary analysis of the Survey of English Housing. It argues that for many of the self-employed both the housing boom and the economic boom of the 1980s and the housing and economic recessions of the 1990s have been mutually constitutive. The growth and sustainability of self-employment and of home …
Producing Consumption
The importance of credit to low-income households is widely recognized, providing a mechanism for managing poverty. In such households women are generally the money-managers, and as such they are significant consumers of credit. Much less attention has been paid, however, to the role that women play in creating and maintaining some credit markets, thereby becoming central to a key means of consumption. Using data from two recent qualitative studi…
A Statewide Study of Neighbors' Knowledge of and Reactions to Physical Child Abuse
Neighbors are believed to have an important influence on child abuse prevention and intervention. This article reports the results of a statewide telephone survey of Kentucky (n = 650) which examined the extent to which respondents suspected neighbors of child abuse (9.4%), and had ever taken in a neighbor's abused or neglected child (7.2%). Variables related to parenting (having a minor child, age, employment status, receiving AFDC benefits) wer…
Case Outcomes in Domestic Violence Court
Observation of 174 domestic violence cases in a civil court indicated that the only significant factor related to case outcomes was the judge hearing the case. The three judges whose cases were observed differed significantly in their rates of cases dismissed, findings for or against the respondents, and number and types of orders issued. The data suggest the need for more consistent education of judges in regard to domestic violence
Mortgage possession
Despite the recent growth in mortgage possession there has been little research on the characteristics of those losing their property or the form and meaning of the possession process. This paper examines: the conceptualisation and measurement of possession; who is at risk and of what type of possession; the factors associated with different routes out of owner occupation and the impact of possession on borrowers both financially and in terms of …
Needs assessment for persons with severe mental illness
Money advice
1992). Money advice: Issues for local authorities (or don't just throw money advice at the problem) Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 249-259
The Changing Face of Home Ownership
In the 1980s home ownership in Britain expanded rapidly under the impact of central government policy. From some perspectives this expansion has meant the unproblematic achievement of a variety of objectives. But the nature and significance of home ownership, and the objectives which it can fulfil, are no longer what they were in 1980, and the actors in the market no longer face the same market conditions. This is particularly so at the onset of …
A Client-Developed Functional Level Scale
In response to a mandate imposed by the County Community Mental Health Board, a psychosocial rehabilitation agency proposed that its consumer group would develop their own functional level scale to measure effectiveness of the services provided. The paper describes the development of the scale and the procedures used to examine its reliability and validity. The findings suggest that the Community Living Skills Scale developed by the Client Orient…
The Indebted Society
This book is about debt - a situation which affects a large and growing number of people. In Britain alone in 1986 more than 2 million people were sued for debt in the county courts. But debt cannot be understood apart from credit, and the 1980s have seen a substantial increase in the amount of credit available. In The Indebted Society Janet Ford gives both an overview of the contemporary credit and debt society and a discussion of the borrower's…
Conceptualising the Contemporary Role of Housing in the Transition to Adult Life in England
This paper uses both survey and qualitative panel data collected from five different case-study areas in England in order to offer a conceptualisation of the contemporary role that housing is playing in the transition to adult life. The data suggest that the types of housing pathway that young people follow are a function of differences in the combination and intensity of three main factors: the ability of young people to plan for and control the…
Housing advantage? the role of student renting in the constitution of housing biographies in the United Kingdom
Research on young people leaving the parental home has tended to focus most closely on charting and explaining the age at which young people leave, and exploring the incidence of returning after a period of living either ‘semi‐autonomously’ or independently. The majority of these studies have been quantitative and fairly static in approach. This paper develops an approach to the topic that is more qualitative in its orientation and that views hou…
Information in the Labour Market
The Flexibility of Recruitment in the Construction Industry
Common sense views of the construction industry tend to characterise its labour market processes as haphazard, if not anarchic, and requiring reform through formalisation. In contrast, a sociological perspective might point to the possibility of an underlying rationality beneath the apparent confusion. Industry data suggest a growing degree of casualism in construction, in the sense that employers and self-employed have become a significantly lar…
Owner Occupation, Employment and Welfare
This paper is concerned with the changing relationships between owner occupation,employmentand welfare that increasingly present a challenge to sustainable home ownership. While the discussion centres on the emerging position in Britain, the potential significance of the issues for a number of other countries is noted. The paper first identifies the conditions for sustainable owner occupation and then traces out the impact of three illustrative a…
The Costs of Unsustainable Home Ownership in Britain
This paper examines the costs of unsustainable home ownership in Britain as manifested through mortgage arrears and possessions. It suggests that there are a widely drawn set of costs that have an impact on a range of different actors and institutions, and offers a simple conceptual framework for developing an analysis of such costs. Further, the paper suggests that an examination of these costs has the potential to contribute to some key debates…
Mortgage possession
Despite the recent growth in mortgage possession there has been little research on the characteristics of those losing their property or the form and meaning of the possession process. This paper examines: the conceptualisation and measurement of possession; who is at risk and of what type of possession; the factors associated with different routes out of owner occupation and the impact of possession on borrowers both financially and in terms of …
The Changing Face of Home Ownership
In the 1980s home ownership in Britain expanded rapidly under the impact of central government policy. From some perspectives this expansion has meant the unproblematic achievement of a variety of objectives. But the nature and significance of home ownership, and the objectives which it can fulfil, are no longer what they were in 1980, and the actors in the market no longer face the same market conditions. This is particularly so at the onset of …
The Role of the Building Society Manager in the Urban Stratification System; Autonomy versus Constraint
Self-Employment and Home Ownership after the Enterprise Culture
This paper examines the relationship between patterns of self-employment and patterns of home ownership in England in the 1990s. It does this via a secondary analysis of the Survey of English Housing. It argues that for many of the self-employed both the housing boom and the economic boom of the 1980s and the housing and economic recessions of the 1990s have been mutually constitutive. The growth and sustainability of self-employment and of home …
Casual Work and Owner Occupation
This paper considers the implications of a number of recent labour market changes for the maintenance of owner occupation. The prevalent emphasis upon the impact of unemployment on owner occupiers is discussed in relation to mortgage arrears and possessions, and contrasted with the limited recognition and attention given to the ways in which changing forms of employment enhance the risk of default (an argument which challenges the conventional as…
Needs assessment for persons with severe mental illness
Managing or mismanaging mortgage arrears? The case of the building societies
Due to changes in their lending pattern, along with wider social and economic change, building societies face increasing risk, signified by growing default. All creditors have ultimate legal sanctions against debtors but typically first initiate a non‐judicial debt collection process. This paper outlines policy and practice with regard to the pre‐judicial management for the recovery of mortgage arrears, and indicates a substantial gulf between th…
Failing Home Owners? The Effectiveness of Public and Private Safety-nets
In the context of growing risks and expectations of greater personal responsibility, this paper presents the results of a study of the effectiveness and implications of the new pattern of safety-net provision for mortgagors in Britain which was implemented in October 1995 and which involves both private insurance (MPPI) and public provision (ISMI). The paper focuses primarily on those borrowers most likely to experience the risks associated with …
Methodological and Theoretical Problems in the Investigation of Planned Organisational Change
Applying Learner-Centered Principles to Teaching Human Behavior in the Social Environment in a Baccalaureate Program
Changes in the demographics of American undergraduate students must be addressed by changes in delivery of the curriculum. The learner-centered approach to education helps to recognize and integrate student diversity with class exercises and assignments designed to help students meet course learning outcomes. This article applies the American Psychological Association's Learner-Centered Psychological Principles to a BSW course in human behavior i…
A Pilot Study to Evaluate a Tobacco Diversion Program
By 1998, 42 states had implemented legislation to prohibit the purchase, possession, or use of tobacco by minors, a 24% increase since 1995.1,2 In response, communities have developed tobacco education classes, known as tobacco diversion programs, offered in lieu of, or in addition to, other penalties for youths cited for tobacco use. Despite the proliferation of these programs, little is known about their effect on youths' tobacco use. Since Sep…
A Place in the Country? The Housing Circumstances of Young People in Rural England
The contemporary housing circumstances of the one-fifth of all young people in England between the ages of 16 and 24 who live in rural areas are examined. Although young people are often seen as a key group in wider debates, not least because they so clearly represent the maintenance of the continuity of local people, they are infrequently examined in the research literature. More typically the young are simply ‘tagged on’ to existing studies of …
A Statewide Study of Neighbors' Knowledge of and Reactions to Physical Child Abuse
Neighbors are believed to have an important influence on child abuse prevention and intervention. This article reports the results of a statewide telephone survey of Kentucky (n = 650) which examined the extent to which respondents suspected neighbors of child abuse (9.4%), and had ever taken in a neighbor's abused or neglected child (7.2%). Variables related to parenting (having a minor child, age, employment status, receiving AFDC benefits) wer…
Methodological and Theoretical Problems in the Investigation of Planned Organisational Change
The Role of the Building Society Manager in the Urban Stratification System; Autonomy versus Constraint
Information in the Labour Market
Income expectations and the decision to enter higher education
This paper focuses upon ex-ante rates of return to higher education. Income stream data are presented for a sample of 261 undergraduates; initially for the group as a whole, and then by discipline and sex. The income stream data are used to calculate ex-ante rates of return. The rates of return are found to be substantially higher than those obtained in the limited number of other studies in the area, and are particularly high for women. A number…
The Flexibility of Recruitment in the Construction Industry
Common sense views of the construction industry tend to characterise its labour market processes as haphazard, if not anarchic, and requiring reform through formalisation. In contrast, a sociological perspective might point to the possibility of an underlying rationality beneath the apparent confusion. Industry data suggest a growing degree of casualism in construction, in the sense that employers and self-employed have become a significantly lar…
Leader orientation and organizational transience
In spite of the increased interest in the role of situational factors as moderators of leader orientation‐performance relationships, the possible role of organizational transience as a mediating variable has been ignored. The authors used Fiedler's Least Preferred Co‐worker (LPC) Scale in a study of 39 construction site managers. It was found that these managers have a stronger task orientation than other occupational groups who are typically loc…
Managing or mismanaging mortgage arrears? The case of the building societies
Due to changes in their lending pattern, along with wider social and economic change, building societies face increasing risk, signified by growing default. All creditors have ultimate legal sanctions against debtors but typically first initiate a non‐judicial debt collection process. This paper outlines policy and practice with regard to the pre‐judicial management for the recovery of mortgage arrears, and indicates a substantial gulf between th…
Casual Work and Owner Occupation
This paper considers the implications of a number of recent labour market changes for the maintenance of owner occupation. The prevalent emphasis upon the impact of unemployment on owner occupiers is discussed in relation to mortgage arrears and possessions, and contrasted with the limited recognition and attention given to the ways in which changing forms of employment enhance the risk of default (an argument which challenges the conventional as…
A Client-Developed Functional Level Scale
In response to a mandate imposed by the County Community Mental Health Board, a psychosocial rehabilitation agency proposed that its consumer group would develop their own functional level scale to measure effectiveness of the services provided. The paper describes the development of the scale and the procedures used to examine its reliability and validity. The findings suggest that the Community Living Skills Scale developed by the Client Orient…
The Indebted Society
This book is about debt - a situation which affects a large and growing number of people. In Britain alone in 1986 more than 2 million people were sued for debt in the county courts. But debt cannot be understood apart from credit, and the 1980s have seen a substantial increase in the amount of credit available. In The Indebted Society Janet Ford gives both an overview of the contemporary credit and debt society and a discussion of the borrower's…
The Changing Face of Home Ownership
In the 1980s home ownership in Britain expanded rapidly under the impact of central government policy. From some perspectives this expansion has meant the unproblematic achievement of a variety of objectives. But the nature and significance of home ownership, and the objectives which it can fulfil, are no longer what they were in 1980, and the actors in the market no longer face the same market conditions. This is particularly so at the onset of …
Needs assessment for persons with severe mental illness
Money advice
1992). Money advice: Issues for local authorities (or don't just throw money advice at the problem) Local Government Studies: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 249-259
Mortgage possession
Despite the recent growth in mortgage possession there has been little research on the characteristics of those losing their property or the form and meaning of the possession process. This paper examines: the conceptualisation and measurement of possession; who is at risk and of what type of possession; the factors associated with different routes out of owner occupation and the impact of possession on borrowers both financially and in terms of …
Case Outcomes in Domestic Violence Court
Observation of 174 domestic violence cases in a civil court indicated that the only significant factor related to case outcomes was the judge hearing the case. The three judges whose cases were observed differed significantly in their rates of cases dismissed, findings for or against the respondents, and number and types of orders issued. The data suggest the need for more consistent education of judges in regard to domestic violence
A Statewide Study of Neighbors' Knowledge of and Reactions to Physical Child Abuse
Neighbors are believed to have an important influence on child abuse prevention and intervention. This article reports the results of a statewide telephone survey of Kentucky (n = 650) which examined the extent to which respondents suspected neighbors of child abuse (9.4%), and had ever taken in a neighbor's abused or neglected child (7.2%). Variables related to parenting (having a minor child, age, employment status, receiving AFDC benefits) wer…
Producing Consumption
The importance of credit to low-income households is widely recognized, providing a mechanism for managing poverty. In such households women are generally the money-managers, and as such they are significant consumers of credit. Much less attention has been paid, however, to the role that women play in creating and maintaining some credit markets, thereby becoming central to a key means of consumption. Using data from two recent qualitative studi…
A Place in the Country? The Housing Circumstances of Young People in Rural England
The contemporary housing circumstances of the one-fifth of all young people in England between the ages of 16 and 24 who live in rural areas are examined. Although young people are often seen as a key group in wider debates, not least because they so clearly represent the maintenance of the continuity of local people, they are infrequently examined in the research literature. More typically the young are simply ‘tagged on’ to existing studies of …
Owner Occupation, Employment and Welfare
This paper is concerned with the changing relationships between owner occupation,employmentand welfare that increasingly present a challenge to sustainable home ownership. While the discussion centres on the emerging position in Britain, the potential significance of the issues for a number of other countries is noted. The paper first identifies the conditions for sustainable owner occupation and then traces out the impact of three illustrative a…
Self-Employment and Home Ownership after the Enterprise Culture
This paper examines the relationship between patterns of self-employment and patterns of home ownership in England in the 1990s. It does this via a secondary analysis of the Survey of English Housing. It argues that for many of the self-employed both the housing boom and the economic boom of the 1980s and the housing and economic recessions of the 1990s have been mutually constitutive. The growth and sustainability of self-employment and of home …
The Costs of Unsustainable Home Ownership in Britain
This paper examines the costs of unsustainable home ownership in Britain as manifested through mortgage arrears and possessions. It suggests that there are a widely drawn set of costs that have an impact on a range of different actors and institutions, and offers a simple conceptual framework for developing an analysis of such costs. Further, the paper suggests that an examination of these costs has the potential to contribute to some key debates…
Risk and trust
English Government policy is that social protection for mortgagors should be delivered initially through the market (Mortgage Payment Protection Insurance – MPPI). However, expectations of market expansion have not been realised. The paper explores some likely reasons for this, drawing on the emerging critique of welfare markets and the identification of the importance of trust. Data on the MPPI claiming process indicate that borrowers could not …
Failing Home Owners? The Effectiveness of Public and Private Safety-nets
In the context of growing risks and expectations of greater personal responsibility, this paper presents the results of a study of the effectiveness and implications of the new pattern of safety-net provision for mortgagors in Britain which was implemented in October 1995 and which involves both private insurance (MPPI) and public provision (ISMI). The paper focuses primarily on those borrowers most likely to experience the risks associated with …
The Effectiveness and Enforcement of a Teen Curfew Law
This article examines the effect of a teen curfew on juvenile arrest rates and reviews the first year of the curfew's implementation in a city of over 200,000 population. Juvenile arrest rates were compared for three years prior to the curfew's enactment and three years of curfew enforcement. Data related to 377 curfew violations and 83 parent citations issued in 22 police beats during the first year of implementation were analyzed to determine w…
A Pilot Study to Evaluate a Tobacco Diversion Program
By 1998, 42 states had implemented legislation to prohibit the purchase, possession, or use of tobacco by minors, a 24% increase since 1995.1,2 In response, communities have developed tobacco education classes, known as tobacco diversion programs, offered in lieu of, or in addition to, other penalties for youths cited for tobacco use. Despite the proliferation of these programs, little is known about their effect on youths' tobacco use. Since Sep…
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