Ian Cummins is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at Salford University. He qualified as a probation officer and subsequently worked as a mental health social worker. His research interests including the history of community care and mental health issues in the CJS. His most recent work has focused on poverty, inequality and advanced marginality.
20 Ebooks by Ian Cummins
Ian Cummins: Poverty, Inequality and Social Work
This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wider welfare provision. It argues that social work …
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€37.99
Ian Cummins: Poverty, Inequality and Social Work
This book offers a critical, sociological analysis of the domino effect of neoliberalism and austerity politics on the role of social work and wider welfare provision. It argues that social work …
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English
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€43.99
Ian Cummins: Mental Health Social Work Reimagined
Taking a critical and radical approach, this book calls for a return to mental health social work that has personal relationships and an emotional connection between workers and those experiencing …
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€32.99
Ian Cummins: Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System
The Criminal Justice System is becoming a de facto provider of mental health care, according to a series of recent prison inspections and reports on policing and mental illness which have highlighted …
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€33.99
Ian Cummins: Critical Psychiatry
Critical Psychiatry outlines the history of a group of thinkers that has come to be known as the anti-psychiatry movement. Though it has been called a movement, the individual thinkers’ and authors’ …
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€26.99
Ian Cummins & Marian Foley: Serial Killers and the Media
This book examines the media and cultural responses to the awful crimes of Brady and Hindley, whose murders provided a template for future media reporting on serial killers. It explores a wide vari …
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€37.44
Ian (University of Salford) Cummins: Mental Health Social Work Reimagined
Taking a critical and radical approach, this book calls for a return to mental health social work that has personal relationships and an emotional connection between workers and those experiencing …
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€30.73
John Beasant & Ian Cummins: Shell Shock
Royal Dutch/Shell is a multinational behemoth. Every four seconds of every day, 1, 200 cars fill their tanks with petrol on Shell forecourts, while at airports around the world civil airliners are …
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€14.99
Ian Cummins: Mental Health Services and Community Care
This critical interdisciplinary study charts the modern history of mental health services, reflects upon the evolution of care in communities, and considers the most effective policies and practices …
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€38.99
Ian Cummins: Mental Health Services and Community Care
This critical interdisciplinary study charts the modern history of mental health services, reflects upon the evolution of care in communities, and considers the most effective policies and practices …
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€35.51
Ian Cummins: Welfare and Punishment
In this enlightening study, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to penal and welfare systems. From Margaret Thatcher’s first cabinet, to austerity politics via New Labour, the book reveals the …
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€43.99
Ian Cummins: Welfare and Punishment
In this enlightening study, Ian Cummins traces changing attitudes to penal and welfare systems. From Margaret Thatcher’s first cabinet, to austerity politics via New Labour, the book reveals the …
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English
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€33.72
Ian Cummins: Challenges in Mental Health and Policing
Police officers deal with mental illness-related incidents on an almost daily basis. Ian Cummins explores how factors such as deinstitutionalisation, community care failings and, more recently, …
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€43.99
Ian Cummins: Challenges in Mental Health and Policing
Police officers deal with mental illness-related incidents on an almost daily basis. Ian Cummins explores how factors such as deinstitutionalisation, community care failings and, more recently, …
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€34.19
Ian Cummins: Marx, Engels and National Movements (RLE Marxism)
While their attempts to understand the workings of capitalism led them to the conclusion that the advanced societies of Western Europe were those most likely to be the setting for a successful social …
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€46.98
Ian Cummins: Marx, Engels and National Movements (RLE Marxism)
While their attempts to understand the workings of capitalism led them to the conclusion that the advanced societies of Western Europe were those most likely to be the setting for a successful social …
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€46.87
Andrew Taylor: Stuck Outside
How do identity and social circumstances affect experiences of the criminal legal system in the US?
It’s no secret that factors such as race and socio-economic status will affect a person’s experie …
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€24.99
Kimberly Nolan: Getting out of South Carolina’s Juvenile Justice System
How can society provide better education services for young incarcerated offenders?
In most cases they receive fewer hours of education than they were getting prior to incarceration, if any. Gettin …
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€0.00
Martin King & Louise Wattis: True Crime
True crime is a huge cultural industry: media organisations use crime stories to push sales and clicks. Yet behind this phenomenon lies the real-life victims and a disconnect between the representati …
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€37.99
Maurice Tyree & Katie Singer: The Darkest Parts of My Blackness
Maurice Tyree went to prison thinking that life was disposable. He came out knowing that he had a story to tell.
This is his story, told through letters and poems written during and since his time …
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€24.99
