Living in dangerous times
Subtitle: fear, insecurity, risk, and social policy
By: edited by David Denney.
Contributors: Denney, David.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781405191760
Subjects: Risk -- Social aspects; Social policy
Other titles: Social policy & administration.
Notes: "Originally published as volume 42, issue 6 of Social policy & administration."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fear, human rights, and new labour policy post-9/11 / David Denney; title: Does difference make a difference in financial planning for risk? / Deborah Quilgars, Anwen Jones, and David Abbott; title: The great cut : the support for private modes of social evasion by public policy / Rowland Atkinson; title: Risk and public protection : responding to involuntary and "taboo" risk / Hazel Kemshall and Jason Wood; title: Social policy beyond fear : the globalization of strangeness, the "war on terror" and "spaces of wonder" / Chris Rumford; title: Fear and security : a vulnerability-led policy response / Frank Furedi; title: Child protection social work : risks of fears and fears of risks : impossible tasks from impossible goals? / Brian Littlechild; title: Fear of others : social exclusion and the European crisis of solidarity / Gerard Delanty; title: "We don't have to take this" : zero tolerance of violence against health care workers in a time of insecurity / Jonathan Gabe and Mary Ann Elston; title: Afterword : risk and welfare / Bent Greve.