Gill Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238583 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gill Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gill |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University Ghana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Understanding Offending Behaviour
Contents: The study in context A typology of offending behaviour Self-expression Social activity Social norm Coping Life-style Professional Policy and management implications Index of names of cases Bibliography Index
The politics of the social fund
Women Partners of Prisoners
In this paper we examine the effects of sentencing on the lives of women partners of prisoners. Whilst criminological theory has advanced in acknowledging issues surrounding women as offenders and as victims of crime, the effects of male imprisonment on the lives of wives and girlfriends remains little researched. The effects on partners' financial arrangements, existing poverty and relationships in the period following sentencing, when approachi…
Welfare Rights Work into the 1990s-a Changing Agenda
The authors discuss the development of welfare rights advisory work in Britain, tracing its origins from the Community Development Projects of the late 1960s to services which are funded mainly by local government. Changes in social security legislation in 1980 introduced a largely non-discretionary regulated scheme which was quickly exploited by welfare rights advisers to maximise the take-up of single payments. Advisers and social workers were …
Help for Children in Custody
A recent survey of children in custody provides some evidence to inform the debate on whether probation officers should withdraw from working in prisons. Levels of probation staffing in institutions housing children are already very low, and from the survey it appears that in general these children receive little help, at any rate of a kind that could reasonably be described as social work. This may be a particular cause for concern since the sur…
The Right Approach to Social Security
cost ceilings were set for local application and time limits after which young claimants had to move to another area or take a cut in benefit, with no right of appeal against this centralised exercise of the Secretary of State's discretion. The regulations were immediately contentious and have retained a high profile for more than a year, receiving legal and parliamentary challenge, pressure group campaigning and unusually wide media coverage for…
The Right Approach to Social Security
cost ceilings were set for local application and time limits after which young claimants had to move to another area or take a cut in benefit, with no right of appeal against this centralised exercise of the Secretary of State's discretion. The regulations were immediately contentious and have retained a high profile for more than a year, receiving legal and parliamentary challenge, pressure group campaigning and unusually wide media coverage for…
The politics of the social fund
Welfare Rights Work into the 1990s-a Changing Agenda
The authors discuss the development of welfare rights advisory work in Britain, tracing its origins from the Community Development Projects of the late 1960s to services which are funded mainly by local government. Changes in social security legislation in 1980 introduced a largely non-discretionary regulated scheme which was quickly exploited by welfare rights advisers to maximise the take-up of single payments. Advisers and social workers were …
The Right Approach to Social Security
cost ceilings were set for local application and time limits after which young claimants had to move to another area or take a cut in benefit, with no right of appeal against this centralised exercise of the Secretary of State's discretion. The regulations were immediately contentious and have retained a high profile for more than a year, receiving legal and parliamentary challenge, pressure group campaigning and unusually wide media coverage for…
Help for Children in Custody
A recent survey of children in custody provides some evidence to inform the debate on whether probation officers should withdraw from working in prisons. Levels of probation staffing in institutions housing children are already very low, and from the survey it appears that in general these children receive little help, at any rate of a kind that could reasonably be described as social work. This may be a particular cause for concern since the sur…
Women Partners of Prisoners
In this paper we examine the effects of sentencing on the lives of women partners of prisoners. Whilst criminological theory has advanced in acknowledging issues surrounding women as offenders and as victims of crime, the effects of male imprisonment on the lives of wives and girlfriends remains little researched. The effects on partners' financial arrangements, existing poverty and relationships in the period following sentencing, when approachi…
Welfare Rights Work into the 1990s-a Changing Agenda
The authors discuss the development of welfare rights advisory work in Britain, tracing its origins from the Community Development Projects of the late 1960s to services which are funded mainly by local government. Changes in social security legislation in 1980 introduced a largely non-discretionary regulated scheme which was quickly exploited by welfare rights advisers to maximise the take-up of single payments. Advisers and social workers were …
The politics of the social fund
Understanding Offending Behaviour
Contents: The study in context A typology of offending behaviour Self-expression Social activity Social norm Coping Life-style Professional Policy and management implications Index of names of cases Bibliography Index
Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social security (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (2 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)