Loan Sharks is his account of his findings and arguments, and being a journalist he has got the book very quickly into print. With the wider research effort into social policy now distributed beyond the academic – across local and national government, journalists, think tanks, the judiciary, police forces, and even social enterprises and businesses – any effective social policy scholarship must be able to engage with these researchers. This raises the problem that in these different communities, the ‘rules of the research game’ in terms of evidence and findings may differ substantially from scholarly expectations.