Ian Paylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 6024472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Paylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Paylor |
| SIGNATURE | PAYLOR I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social workers as game changers
A Short Reply to the ‘Epistemology of Harm Reduction’
This short reply focuses on the view that the dominant discourse surrounding drug use creates difficulties in offering harm reduction for those who are not currently in recovery. Recovery as the dominant political discourse provides structural barriers to harm-reduction intervention at the front line level, placing greater emphasis on getting individuals into recovery, whilst providing more services aimed specifically at reducing drug use. This s…
The inclusion of people with hepatitis C within disability studies
This article adopts a critical position regarding the ‘illness is not disability’ debate by framing hepatitis C both as a lived, physical impairment and a socio-cultural disability/illness. This article draws on qualitative in-depth interviews with 21 people who live(d) with hepatitis C in the UK and examines the financial impact of living with hepatitis C and the process of applying and being found eligible for welfare benefits. This article con…
Hepatitis C and Social Work
It is now a full decade since Paylor and Orgel (2004) called for social work to 'wake up' to hepatitis C (HCV). In that time, a small but significant body of social research has developed which has highlighted the far-reaching social consequences of living with HCV. Using this as a foundation, Paylor and Mack (2010) expanded arguments on the role of social work and identified specific areas where social work might become involved, arguing that th…
Alcohol Use and Abuse
Employment Experiences of Those Living With and Being Treated For Hepatitis C
Accounts of employment experience with Hepatitis C (HCV) are scarce, particularly within a UK context where few qualitative studies are available. This article reports on a piece of empirical work which sought to explore the experiences of living with HCV in the UK, out of which the experience of employment emerged. Two standout areas of discussion in this article are the degree to which individuals felt protected in disability legislation (i.e. …
Working with Drug and Alcohol Users
It is both pleasing (to me) and a matter of note that, during (another) major period of reform in social work education and practice, we are seeing a number of texts (e.g. Paylor et al., 2012; Galvani, 2012; Nelson, 2012) dealing with supporting people with alcohol and drug problems. Substance use has been identified as an area of educational need for all social workers (TCSW, 2012b) and, along with the growth of texts in this area, there are a g…
The Sentencing of Children
Generally, the titles of works reviewed in the British Journal of Social Work have a descriptive role, a functional purpose. They are not normally meant to entice the reader. Fictional titles such as ‘The body in the black lagoon’ or ‘The Mallowdale massacre’ offer intrigue; they entice the reader in. This work of non-fiction had an equally tantalising effect: is it a law manual, a philosophical treatise, a book on policy or a practice guide for …
Where Next for Criminal Justice
Historically, there have been quite a number of texts over the years that have sought to speculate about possible futures for our criminal justice system. One wonders what it is about criminal justice, rather than, for example, the future of social work that so exercises authors. It is not, if one looks back, that anyone appears to have taken much notice of such prophecies. Readers of the British Journal of Social Work not directly engaged with t…
Evaluating in Practice, 2nd edn
This is an absorbing and fascinating book. The intrigue actually begins with the fact that it is described as a second edition but this is not acknowledged on the cover or title page. In the preface, the author describes it as ‘much more’ than a second edition. We are not familiar with the first edition (published in 1996) so cannot comment on the veracity of that claim, although the author is convincing regarding the changes of direction and sco…
Contemporary Practice with Young People Who Sexually Abuse
The subject of young children and adolescents who sexually abuse has been somewhat underappreciated in the UK and has always been viewed as a complex problem. Prior to the 1980s, the occurrence of sexual crimes involving young persons was often treated as isolated cases rather than as a serious social problem. The sexual behaviour of young children and adolescents was often dismissed and/or explained as instances of sexual curiosity or part of no…
Parents Who Misuse Drugs and Alcohol
Offenders or Citizens? Readings in Rehabilitation
Journal Article Offenders or Citizens? Readings in Rehabilitation Get access Offenders or Citizens? Readings in Rehabilitation, Philip Priestley and Maurice Vanstone (eds), Cullompton, Willan, 2010, pp. 330, ISBN 978 1 84392 529 3 (pb), £29.95 Ian Paylor Ian Paylor Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 41, Issue…
Understanding Youth Offending
Gazing into the Scarlet Crystal Ball
This paper presents arguments for recognising and tackling Hepatitis C (HCV) as a major challenge for social work. Despite repeated warnings from a variety of sources and thousands of new infections each year, successive governments have failed to address a public health emergency of immense proportions—the HCV epidemic. The implications for social work are significant. Social care workers, particularly those working with physically disabled adul…
The Use of Lay Assessors
This paper reports on some findings from a research study conducted by the authors for the Commission for Social Care Inspection. It examines the reasons for the involvement of lay assessors and perceptions of the effectiveness of lay assessors in specific regulatory functions.
An Evaluation of the Carat Initiative
CARAT (Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Throughcare) schemes have been operational in prisons throughout England and Wales for three and a half years, designed to increase the support available to drug-using prisoners both during custody and on release. Specifically the CARAT service has a remit to ‘bridge the gap’ between custody and the community. However, to date there have been few attempts to evaluate schemes or their impact on …
Evaluating Youth Justice in the UK
In the UK, following the Crime and Disorder Act of 1998, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) funded over 450 separate crime prevention schemes. The YJB in approving these various schemes stressed the importance of monitoring and evaluation. Local evaluators were appointed whose role was to report back to the funding agency and the national evaluators. We were commissioned to undertake the local evaluation of four separate schemes. This article attempts…
Sleepwalking through an Epidemic--Why Social Work should Wake up to the Threat of Hepatitis C
One of the many consequences of injecting drug use is the potential risk to infectious blood-borne viruses. There is evidence that the risk of contracting Hepatitis C (HCV) is greater than that of HIV. Despite repeated warnings from a variety of sources and thousands of new infections among drug users each year and rising incidents of ‘'crack’ injecting, successive governments have failed to address a public health emergency of immense proportion…
Imprisoned Fathers and their Children
Globalization, social exclusion and the possibilities for global social work and welfare
Social work practice in Europe has developed disparately in the context of separate nation states. Yet it has at the level of professional organization a potentially international orientation. Practice can be understood as having a dual configuration: on the one hand it is idiosyncratic to the culture of nation states; on the other it has a dynamic which incorporates an impulse to include broader supranational concerns. This dual configuration is…
Europe, social exclusion and the identity of social work
This paper argues that the identity of social work as a form of professional practice within Europe is a timely matter for contemporary debate. Economic and political moves in Europe towards integration have created the possibility of establishing an identity which could both incorporate a range of diverse activities and also create a form of practice that is distinct. This article will address the emerging concept of social exclusion as a potent…
Who are prisoners' families
This article argues that the traditional focus of work on prisoners' families is misleadingly restrictive, considering that a high proportion of prisoners have neither an active spousal relationship nor children for whose support they are responsible. It seeks to connect thinking about prisoners' families with recent work on family ties and obligations, and to explore the criminological implications of what is known about the sources of social su…
Partnerships Between the Independent Sector and the Probation Service
This article examines the concept, strongly promoted in recent Home Office policy, of partnerships between the probation service and the independent sector. Its aim is to discuss the implications of this concept for probation policy and practice. It is argued first that current debates have tended to lose sight of a long tradition of joint work between the service and the voluntary sector, and examples are given of past partnerships' which may he…
Imprisoned Fathers and their Children
Understanding Youth Offending
Parents Who Misuse Drugs and Alcohol
Gazing into the Scarlet Crystal Ball
This paper presents arguments for recognising and tackling Hepatitis C (HCV) as a major challenge for social work. Despite repeated warnings from a variety of sources and thousands of new infections each year, successive governments have failed to address a public health emergency of immense proportions—the HCV epidemic. The implications for social work are significant. Social care workers, particularly those working with physically disabled adul…
Sleepwalking through an Epidemic--Why Social Work should Wake up to the Threat of Hepatitis C
One of the many consequences of injecting drug use is the potential risk to infectious blood-borne viruses. There is evidence that the risk of contracting Hepatitis C (HCV) is greater than that of HIV. Despite repeated warnings from a variety of sources and thousands of new infections among drug users each year and rising incidents of ‘'crack’ injecting, successive governments have failed to address a public health emergency of immense proportion…
The Use of Lay Assessors
This paper reports on some findings from a research study conducted by the authors for the Commission for Social Care Inspection. It examines the reasons for the involvement of lay assessors and perceptions of the effectiveness of lay assessors in specific regulatory functions.
Globalization, social exclusion and the possibilities for global social work and welfare
Social work practice in Europe has developed disparately in the context of separate nation states. Yet it has at the level of professional organization a potentially international orientation. Practice can be understood as having a dual configuration: on the one hand it is idiosyncratic to the culture of nation states; on the other it has a dynamic which incorporates an impulse to include broader supranational concerns. This dual configuration is…
Europe, social exclusion and the identity of social work
This paper argues that the identity of social work as a form of professional practice within Europe is a timely matter for contemporary debate. Economic and political moves in Europe towards integration have created the possibility of establishing an identity which could both incorporate a range of diverse activities and also create a form of practice that is distinct. This article will address the emerging concept of social exclusion as a potent…
Who are prisoners' families
This article argues that the traditional focus of work on prisoners' families is misleadingly restrictive, considering that a high proportion of prisoners have neither an active spousal relationship nor children for whose support they are responsible. It seeks to connect thinking about prisoners' families with recent work on family ties and obligations, and to explore the criminological implications of what is known about the sources of social su…
Employment Experiences of Those Living With and Being Treated For Hepatitis C
Accounts of employment experience with Hepatitis C (HCV) are scarce, particularly within a UK context where few qualitative studies are available. This article reports on a piece of empirical work which sought to explore the experiences of living with HCV in the UK, out of which the experience of employment emerged. Two standout areas of discussion in this article are the degree to which individuals felt protected in disability legislation (i.e. …
Partnerships Between the Independent Sector and the Probation Service
This article examines the concept, strongly promoted in recent Home Office policy, of partnerships between the probation service and the independent sector. Its aim is to discuss the implications of this concept for probation policy and practice. It is argued first that current debates have tended to lose sight of a long tradition of joint work between the service and the voluntary sector, and examples are given of past partnerships' which may he…
Who are prisoners' families
This article argues that the traditional focus of work on prisoners' families is misleadingly restrictive, considering that a high proportion of prisoners have neither an active spousal relationship nor children for whose support they are responsible. It seeks to connect thinking about prisoners' families with recent work on family ties and obligations, and to explore the criminological implications of what is known about the sources of social su…
Europe, social exclusion and the identity of social work
This paper argues that the identity of social work as a form of professional practice within Europe is a timely matter for contemporary debate. Economic and political moves in Europe towards integration have created the possibility of establishing an identity which could both incorporate a range of diverse activities and also create a form of practice that is distinct. This article will address the emerging concept of social exclusion as a potent…
Globalization, social exclusion and the possibilities for global social work and welfare
Social work practice in Europe has developed disparately in the context of separate nation states. Yet it has at the level of professional organization a potentially international orientation. Practice can be understood as having a dual configuration: on the one hand it is idiosyncratic to the culture of nation states; on the other it has a dynamic which incorporates an impulse to include broader supranational concerns. This dual configuration is…
Imprisoned Fathers and their Children
Evaluating Youth Justice in the UK
In the UK, following the Crime and Disorder Act of 1998, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) funded over 450 separate crime prevention schemes. The YJB in approving these various schemes stressed the importance of monitoring and evaluation. Local evaluators were appointed whose role was to report back to the funding agency and the national evaluators. We were commissioned to undertake the local evaluation of four separate schemes. This article attempts…
Sleepwalking through an Epidemic--Why Social Work should Wake up to the Threat of Hepatitis C
One of the many consequences of injecting drug use is the potential risk to infectious blood-borne viruses. There is evidence that the risk of contracting Hepatitis C (HCV) is greater than that of HIV. Despite repeated warnings from a variety of sources and thousands of new infections among drug users each year and rising incidents of ‘'crack’ injecting, successive governments have failed to address a public health emergency of immense proportion…
An Evaluation of the Carat Initiative
CARAT (Counselling, Assessment, Referral, Advice and Throughcare) schemes have been operational in prisons throughout England and Wales for three and a half years, designed to increase the support available to drug-using prisoners both during custody and on release. Specifically the CARAT service has a remit to ‘bridge the gap’ between custody and the community. However, to date there have been few attempts to evaluate schemes or their impact on …
The Use of Lay Assessors
This paper reports on some findings from a research study conducted by the authors for the Commission for Social Care Inspection. It examines the reasons for the involvement of lay assessors and perceptions of the effectiveness of lay assessors in specific regulatory functions.
Understanding Youth Offending
Gazing into the Scarlet Crystal Ball
This paper presents arguments for recognising and tackling Hepatitis C (HCV) as a major challenge for social work. Despite repeated warnings from a variety of sources and thousands of new infections each year, successive governments have failed to address a public health emergency of immense proportions—the HCV epidemic. The implications for social work are significant. Social care workers, particularly those working with physically disabled adul…
Parents Who Misuse Drugs and Alcohol
Offenders or Citizens? Readings in Rehabilitation
Journal Article Offenders or Citizens? Readings in Rehabilitation Get access Offenders or Citizens? Readings in Rehabilitation, Philip Priestley and Maurice Vanstone (eds), Cullompton, Willan, 2010, pp. 330, ISBN 978 1 84392 529 3 (pb), £29.95 Ian Paylor Ian Paylor Department of Applied Social Science, Lancaster University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 41, Issue…
Evaluating in Practice, 2nd edn
This is an absorbing and fascinating book. The intrigue actually begins with the fact that it is described as a second edition but this is not acknowledged on the cover or title page. In the preface, the author describes it as ‘much more’ than a second edition. We are not familiar with the first edition (published in 1996) so cannot comment on the veracity of that claim, although the author is convincing regarding the changes of direction and sco…
Contemporary Practice with Young People Who Sexually Abuse
The subject of young children and adolescents who sexually abuse has been somewhat underappreciated in the UK and has always been viewed as a complex problem. Prior to the 1980s, the occurrence of sexual crimes involving young persons was often treated as isolated cases rather than as a serious social problem. The sexual behaviour of young children and adolescents was often dismissed and/or explained as instances of sexual curiosity or part of no…
Working with Drug and Alcohol Users
It is both pleasing (to me) and a matter of note that, during (another) major period of reform in social work education and practice, we are seeing a number of texts (e.g. Paylor et al., 2012; Galvani, 2012; Nelson, 2012) dealing with supporting people with alcohol and drug problems. Substance use has been identified as an area of educational need for all social workers (TCSW, 2012b) and, along with the growth of texts in this area, there are a g…
The Sentencing of Children
Generally, the titles of works reviewed in the British Journal of Social Work have a descriptive role, a functional purpose. They are not normally meant to entice the reader. Fictional titles such as ‘The body in the black lagoon’ or ‘The Mallowdale massacre’ offer intrigue; they entice the reader in. This work of non-fiction had an equally tantalising effect: is it a law manual, a philosophical treatise, a book on policy or a practice guide for …
Where Next for Criminal Justice
Historically, there have been quite a number of texts over the years that have sought to speculate about possible futures for our criminal justice system. One wonders what it is about criminal justice, rather than, for example, the future of social work that so exercises authors. It is not, if one looks back, that anyone appears to have taken much notice of such prophecies. Readers of the British Journal of Social Work not directly engaged with t…
Alcohol Use and Abuse
Employment Experiences of Those Living With and Being Treated For Hepatitis C
Accounts of employment experience with Hepatitis C (HCV) are scarce, particularly within a UK context where few qualitative studies are available. This article reports on a piece of empirical work which sought to explore the experiences of living with HCV in the UK, out of which the experience of employment emerged. Two standout areas of discussion in this article are the degree to which individuals felt protected in disability legislation (i.e. …
The inclusion of people with hepatitis C within disability studies
This article adopts a critical position regarding the ‘illness is not disability’ debate by framing hepatitis C both as a lived, physical impairment and a socio-cultural disability/illness. This article draws on qualitative in-depth interviews with 21 people who live(d) with hepatitis C in the UK and examines the financial impact of living with hepatitis C and the process of applying and being found eligible for welfare benefits. This article con…
Hepatitis C and Social Work
It is now a full decade since Paylor and Orgel (2004) called for social work to 'wake up' to hepatitis C (HCV). In that time, a small but significant body of social research has developed which has highlighted the far-reaching social consequences of living with HCV. Using this as a foundation, Paylor and Mack (2010) expanded arguments on the role of social work and identified specific areas where social work might become involved, arguing that th…
Social workers as game changers
A Short Reply to the ‘Epistemology of Harm Reduction’
This short reply focuses on the view that the dominant discourse surrounding drug use creates difficulties in offering harm reduction for those who are not currently in recovery. Recovery as the dominant political discourse provides structural barriers to harm-reduction intervention at the front line level, placing greater emphasis on getting individuals into recovery, whilst providing more services aimed specifically at reducing drug use. This s…
Sociology (21 works) · Political science (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Engineering (10 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Social Work (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Criminology (8 works)